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Bezig met laden... Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler (editie 2017)door Nicholas Rankin (Auteur)
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Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, every day Gibraltar had to let thousands of people cross its frontier to work. Among them came spies and saboteurs, eager to blow up its 25 miles of secret tunnels. In 1942, Gibraltar became US General Eisenhower's HQ for the invasion of North Africa, the campaign that led to Allied victory in the Mediterranean. 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. It also chronicles the end of empire and the rise to independence of the Gibraltarian people. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)940.53History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War IILC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Owned by Great Britain and claimed by Spain and coveted by Hitler,
it quickly became a symbol of Good over Evil.
While Ranklin delivers a comprehensive WW II history, dates are often in confused sequence.
As well, readers may wonder what his detailed emphasis on homosexuality in the novels of Anthony Burgess
has to do with The Rock or WW II.
Even stranger is no mention of The Holocaust following the end of the War.
Questions still unanswered:
1. Why did Britain's 3 forces - Army, Navy, and Air Force - not want to unite to defeat Axis at beginning of War?
2. When they were legally and honorably pledged, why did they not defend Ethiopia?
3. Why did they continue to allow Franco's ships through to attack the Democratic Republic of Spain?
4. Why did Britain refuse to send coal or fuel to this part of Spain? ( )