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03380aam a2200397 i 4500 001 156675A65F3311EDA427565F4DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221108010044 008 220216t20222022nyuab e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1639362320 020 $a 9781639362325 035 $a (OCoLC)1296941926 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d EIK $d HHO $d ON8 $d JIM $d SILO 050 14 $a DA566.9.C5 $b D69 2022 082 04 $a 941.084 $2 23 100 1 $a Downing, Taylor, $e author. 245 10 $a 1942 : $b Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour / $c Taylor Downing. 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 423 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-383) 505 0 $a Ch. 1. "The sleep of the saved" -- Ch. 2. Happy new year, 1942 -- Ch. 3. Confidence -- Ch. 4. The channel dash -- Ch. 5. Imperial collapse -- Ch. 6. "Hard adverse war" -- Ch. 7. Shipping perils -- Ch. 8. Grave deterioration -- Ch. 9. Arctic convoys -- Ch. 10. Bombing -- Ch. 11. Island fortress -- Ch. 12. The Desert War -- Ch. 13. Global battles -- Ch. 14. Disgrace -- Ch. 15. Censure -- Ch. 16. "Have you not got a single general who can win battles?" -- Ch. 17. From the pyramids to the ogre's den -- Ch. 18. "Extreme tension" -- Ch. 19. "The end of the beginning" 520 $a Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession : the collapse in Malaya; the biggest surrender in British history at Singapore; the passing of three large German warships through the Straits of Dover in broad daylight; the longest ever retreat through Burma to the gates of India; serious losses to Rommel's forces in North Africa; the siege of Malta and the surrender at Tobruk. All of this occurred against the backdrop of catastrophic sinkings in the Atlantic and the Arctic convoys. People began to claim that Churchill was not up to the job and his leadership was failing badly. Public morale reached a new low. Taylor Downing's 1942 explores the story of frustration and despair of that year, prompting Winston Churchill to demand of his army chief, "Have you not got a single general who can win battles?" Using newly discovered archival material, historian Taylor Downing shows just how unpopular Churchill became in 1942, with two votes attacking his leadership in the House of Commons and the emergence of a serious political rival. Some argue that Britain's most precarious moment of the war was in 1940--when the nation stood up against the threat of German invasion during the Battle of Britain. But in 1942, Taylor Downing describes, in nail-biting detail, what was really Britain's darkest hour of World War II. 600 10 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965. 650 0 $a Prime ministers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a History, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Great Britain. 941 $a 4 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043124.0 952 $l VMPC334 $d 20230627011406.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011235.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20221208010950.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=156675A65F3311EDA427565F4DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search