Five Days in London, May 1940 (Paperback)

from bookworm12

The title pretty much tells you what you're getting with this one. Lukacs drilled into a short time frame after Winston Churchill became prime minister and some of his cabinet members wanted avoid war with Hitler at all costs. The subject matter is interesting, but his writing style is a bit stal...

from stevesmits

This brief history tells of the debate over five days in May 1940 when the allies resistance to Hitler in France and Belgium was collapsing. Churchill had just assumed power and was facing the possible capitulation of Belgium and France and the destruction of the British army encircled by Germans...

from lamour

Lukacs theory is that WW II was won in these five days at the end of May 1940. While Belguim surrendered to Hitler and the evacution of Dunkirk occured durimg these few days, these were not the crucial events. According to him the key circumstance was that Churchill was able to over come the defe...

from DinadansFriend

A nice piece of micro-history by a Czech historian with a crush on WSC. Redolent of "the Day Lincoln Was Shot", it's a lively look at the British decision to fight on after the fall of France in 1940. Lukacs jokes that his next book will be entitled "The Forty-five Minutes", a look at just the po...

from Embejo

this book looks in detail at 5 important days (24th - 28th May) in London in 1940 during which many important decisions were made in the British War Cabinet and by Prime Minister Churchill. These decisions viewed in retrospect were the most cruical days of the war for England and the Allies, and ...