The Second World War: Volume II -Their Finest Hour

Part One Of Two Parts The year is 1940 and Britain has her back to the wall. Only a thin strip of sea holds Hitler at bay. Writing in The Saturday Review of Literature, Crane Brinton says, "This is vintage Churchill. The great phrases are here, dramatically, lovingly prepared...Mr. Churchill has a central and most dramatic Britain alone against her enemies, alone against our enemies, against the enemies of civilization. He makes the most of this theme with no concessions to the academic notion that the historian is above moral judgements as he is above emotion."