Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 - Hardcover

Todman, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190658487 ISBN 13: 9780190658489

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The second volume of Daniel Todman's account of Great Britain and World War II

The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947, begins with the event Winston Churchill called the "worst disaster" in British military history: the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 to the Japanese. As in the first volume of Todman's epic account of British involvement in World War II ("Total history at its best," according to Jay Winter), he highlights the inter-connectedness of the British experience in this moment and others, focusing on its inhabitants, its defenders, and its wartime leadership. Todman explores the plight of families doomed to spend the war struggling with bombing, rationing, exhausting work and, above all, the absence of their loved ones and the uncertainty of their return. It also documents the full impact of the entrance into the war by the United States, and its ascendant stewardship of the war.

Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 is a triumph of narrative and research. Todman explains complex issues of strategy and economics clearly while never losing sight of the human consequences--at home and abroad--of the way that Britain fought its war. It is the definitive account of a drama which reshaped Great Britain and the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Todman is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. He is also the author of Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941, The Great War: Myth and Memory, and is co-editor of Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke's War Diaries, 1939-1945.

Review:

Praise for Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941

"A decade ago, Daniel Todman made his mark with a decidedly revisionist book on World War I, The Great War: Myth and Memory. In his second major work of popular history, Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941 he aims to modify our perceptions of the United Kingdom's role in World War II. In this, the first of two planned volumes, he succeeds triumphantly." -- Wall Street Journal

"Britain's War is a sharply focused account of the transition of government and people from peacetime routines to the practices of total war. Hugely if overwhelmingly informative, the book brings us up to date with accuracy and precision across a multitude of fields." -- The Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0190658487
• ISBN 13: 9780190658489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 976