A History In Fragments Av Richard Vinen

<p><b>A <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022</b><br><br><b>''There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen''s'' Jonathan Coe,...

Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself.

In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their...