From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of the critical campaign that became a vital precursor to D-Day.
James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning
historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of
best-selling histories including most recently Brothers In Arms and
Normandy '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a
dozen Ladybird Experts.
He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival
which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and
written - many television programmes and series for the BBC,
Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery
channels.
With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We
Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and
is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940
and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.
Marshalling a wealth of primary and secondary sources into an
engrossing narrative, Holland fills a yawning gap in histories of
WWII. This magisterial account is a must-read for military history
fans.
*Publishers Weekly*
Perfect territory for a military historian of Holland's talents
*The Times*
Historians too often neglect that emotional tapestry. War is
characterised as arrows on a map, tables of munitions, cold
casualty statistics. Holland's skill lies in bringing these
warriors to life with vivid prose. He's a prolific historian of the
war, but each book is constructed with great care and emotional
commitment...Holland is obsessed with war, but fortunately does not
seem to love it. He recognises its beauty, but also its
vileness
*The Times*
Holland argues very effectively that the success of Husky was a
turning point in the war
*Times Literary Supplement*
Holland makes the capture of the island one of the great
turning-point battles of the war
*Military History Matters*
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