The Longest Night by Gavin Mortimer

The Longest Night by Gavin Mortimer

An emotionally stirring account of the single most devastating attack on London during the Blitz. A captivating and important contribution. History that reads like a novel.--Kirkus

The untold story of the massive bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse, The Longest Night reveals just how close the Luftwaffe came to total victory. On the night of May 10, 1941, Nazi Germany sent some five hundred aircraft to drop more than seven hundred tons of explosives on London. This vivid, dramatically told account depicts how fate shifted based on Hitler's mistaken belief that he'd actually lost the air war over Britain, and portrays the unsurpassed, we-can-take-it bravery of the British people when they'd been pushed beyond all human endurance.

An excellent book. Gavin Mortimer has interviewed scores of survivors for his gripping narrative.--Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal

Gavin Mortimer is the author of Stirling's Men (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), a ground-breaking history of the early operations of the SAS, The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) and The Blitz: An Illustrated History (Osprey, 2010). An award-winning writer whose books have been published on both sides of the Atlantic, Gavin has previously written for The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer, and Esquire magazine. He continues to contribute to a wide range of newspapers and magazines from BBC History to the American Military History Quarterly. His latest book The SAS in World War II was published in 2011 (Osprey), excerpts from which featured in The Times, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Telegraph. He has lectured on the wartime SAS at the National Army Museum and will be discussing The SAS in World War II at the 2012 Brympton literary festival. The author lives in Paris, France.

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ISBN 13	9780425211830
ISBN 10	0425211835
Title	The Longest Night
Author	Gavin Mortimer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dutton Caliber
Year published	2006-10-03
Number of pages	384
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