1939
1939
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1939 by Robert Kee
History is based on choices, not truth.
The way we see things now is not always how they looked at the time. The task Robert Kee set himself in his chronicle of 1939 was to cut across the demarcation lines of history, to capture the way people perceived the events of the time as they unfolded.
Turning to the newspapers of the day, Kee revives for us a world in which the Second World War is not yet a certainty - a world which still has countless other concerns which have not yet been dwarfed into insignificance by the European emergency - a world in which Chamberlain is still to many a credible leader, and Churchill and Roosevelt, though giants in waiting, are less than monumental.
In this thrilling account Kee explores life in the calm before the storm of 1939. Did the people of Britain see war coming? Or did the world change overnight, from stability to deadly conflict?
Praise for>1939: The World We Left Behind:'Authentic, absorbing . and worth any number of conventional histories' - The Times
Robert Kee, born in 1919, sat for his Oxford History degree in the summer of 1940, when France was falling. He joined the RAF the day after taking his last paper, became a bomber pilot, and was shot down and taken prisoner in 1942. After the war he began his journalistic career on Picture Post. He has worked for more than thirty years in radio and television, for both the BC and ITV. He won the BAFTA Richard Dimbleby Award in 1976.
History is based on choices, not truth.
The way we see things now is not always how they looked at the time. The task Robert Kee set himself in his chronicle of 1939 was to cut across the demarcation lines of history, to capture the way people perceived the events of the time as they unfolded.
Turning to the newspapers of the day, Kee revives for us a world in which the Second World War is not yet a certainty - a world which still has countless other concerns which have not yet been dwarfed into insignificance by the European emergency - a world in which Chamberlain is still to many a credible leader, and Churchill and Roosevelt, though giants in waiting, are less than monumental.
In this thrilling account Kee explores life in the calm before the storm of 1939. Did the people of Britain see war coming? Or did the world change overnight, from stability to deadly conflict?
Praise for>1939: The World We Left Behind:'Authentic, absorbing . and worth any number of conventional histories' - The Times
Robert Kee, born in 1919, sat for his Oxford History degree in the summer of 1940, when France was falling. He joined the RAF the day after taking his last paper, became a bomber pilot, and was shot down and taken prisoner in 1942. After the war he began his journalistic career on Picture Post. He has worked for more than thirty years in radio and television, for both the BC and ITV. He won the BAFTA Richard Dimbleby Award in 1976.
| SKU | CIN1839014016G |
| ISBN 13 | 9781839014017 |
| ISBN 10 | 1839014016 |
| Title | 1939 |
| Author | Robert Kee |
| Series | Second World War |
| Condition | Good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lume Books |
| Year published | 2021-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 390 |
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