Barry Turner Boeken

The final months of World War II in Europe reveal a fierce and desperate struggle, contrary to the common narrative that the Nazis were on the verge of defeat after the Battle of the Bulge. The book explores the brutal battles fought in the Hürtgen Forest, the Po Valley, and the Ruhr, highlighting the significant and often overlooked sacrifices made by Allied forces during this critical period. It sheds light on the intense resistance faced by the Allies, challenging the simplified view of the war's conclusion.

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An insightful history of the unsung hero of the Victorian Age

For the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1939, a new history of the `Phoney War'

Once Britain had demilitarized the idyllic, unspoiled holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed—in July the Germans invaded. The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history of how Britain might have looked under Nazi rule—and how British people, more to the point, might have responded to it, whether through submission, courageous resistance, or even collaboration. Extremely fair-minded account and rich in personal testimonies, this account shows the extreme privations suffered by the Channel Islanders, so utterly cut adrift by Britain—even if for defensible reasons of wartime expediency—and above all the huge moral and civic task required of their pre-war governing class, several of whom could hardly have been expected to rise to the occasion. It also draws on newly released documents to reveal the messy confusion of Britain’s postwar attitude to the Channel Islands, a source of enduring resentment there.

The first book to explore the challenges facing the Royal Family on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation

"Berlin - 1948 - a divided city in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wante the Allies out: the Allies were determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking the city to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin's resolve by cutting off food and fuel. In the USA, despite some voices still urging 'America first', it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance against the spread of communism across Europe. And so over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949, British and American aircraft carried out the most ambitious airborne relief operation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost 300,000 flights to save a beleagured Berlin."--Book jacket

Among the military leaders of World War Two, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply controversial figure.As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Adolf Hitler—to whom he was unquestioningly loyal—as head of the Third Reich, his name became associated with all that was most hated in the Nazi regime.Yet Doenitz deserves credit for ending the war quickly while trying to save his compatriots in the east. His Dunkirk-style operation across the Baltic rescued up to two million troops and civilian refugees. He was sentenced to ten years at Nuremberg—a penalty acknowledged as a blatant example of victor's justice—and after his release from Spandau kept well away from politics.Barry Turner's closely examined and even-handed portrait gives a fascinating new perspective on this complex figure, to whom history has not been kind.Barry Turner is an acclaimed historian and editor of The Statesman's Yearbook (Palgrave) which has recently celebrated its 150th anniversary. His most recent books are Beacon for Change (Aurum Press, 2011) and with Tony Rennell, When Daddy Came Home (Arrow, 2014), described as "fascinating" by the Daily Mail. He lives in London and southwest France.

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