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Defending the Rock

How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler

Rankin, Nicholas

Defending the Rock

Defending the Rock

How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler

Defending the Rock

 

From the bestselling author of }Churchill's Wizards{ and }Ian Fleming's Commandos{, comes a thrilling new history that reveals how a lone outpost of the British Empire fought off attacks by land, air and sea to help win the war

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Beschrijving Defending the Rock

Nicholas Rankin's revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in the wider context of the struggle against fascism, from Abyssinia through the Spanish Civil War.

ISBN
9780571307708
Pagina's
672
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Faber & Faber

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