HAVE MERCY ON US ALL
ISBN : 9780099453642
Each day, in honour of a Parisian tradition, a town crier calls out the local news to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days a number of disturbing messages are slipped in to his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death.
The Second World War Tome 2
ISBN : 9780141441733
"After the collapse of France the question which arose in the minds of all our friends and foes was : "Will Britain surrender too?" Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that sweet the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Their Finest Hour enthrallingly recounts key, events and baffles from May to December 1940 as Britain stood isolated while Nazi Germany pursued its seemingly unconquerable war path: the fall of France, Dunkirk and the Baffle of Britain, the horrors of the Blitz and Hitler's plans to invade and crush Russia. In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War, This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. "This astonishing document ranks among the great classics of history" C. V. Wedgwood
