Never Surrender

Very readable account of the decisive months of 1940. John Kelly’s book tells the story of the decisive six months of 1940 that could have sent world history down a very different path as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The story......more

The book begins in 1919 with Britain’s strong resolve of “never again to go to war”; with three million dead no one wanted to think of war again. Kelly writes a careful and detailed story; Churchill is rarely mentioned in the first one hundred pages of this 384 page book. Once WC appears in the stor......more

Most people in France and Britain, high and low, in the interwar years were determined not to repeat the mistake of going to war as in 1914. When France and Britain went to war again in 1939, they were dreading the specter of another Western Front, and they were almost completely unprepared for the......more