Victory '45
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Victory '45
Victory '45
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War.
Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory. From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, this captivating tale unfolds.
Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it is rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter follows the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing eventsβfrom ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders.
What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed upon would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.
'A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account' β The Express
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780857507952
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 35.0mm
Width: 164.0mm
Height: 242.0mm
Weight: 628g
Pages: 400
About the Author
James Holland (Author) James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940. Al Murray (Author) Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland. Arnhem- Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.
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