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Six minutes in May

Paperback • 2020 • English • 1. edition

Six minutes in May: how Churchill unexpectedly became prime minister

By Nicholas Shakespeare

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About the book

London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking the helm, but in Six Minutes in May Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction. It took just six minutes for MPs to cast the votes that brought down Chamberlain. Shakespeare moves from Britain's disastrous battle in Norway, for which many blamed Churchill, on to t...Show more

Second World War

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ISBN

9781784701000

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Six minutes in May

Format

Paperback

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