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100 1 _aShakespeare, Nicholas,
_d1957-
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aSix minutes in May :
_bhow Churchill unexpectedly became Prime Minister /
_cNicholas Shakespeare.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bHarvill Secker,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _axviii, 508 pages :
_billustrations, portraits, map ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 467-481) and index.
520 _aLondon, early May 1940: Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in "Six Minutes in May", Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction. The first land battle of the war was fought in the far north, in Norway. It went disastrously for the Allies and many blamed Churchill. Yet weeks later he would rise to the most powerful post in the country, overtaking Chamberlain and the favourite to succeed him, Lord Halifax. It took just six minutes for MPs to cast the votes that brought down Chamberlain. Shakespeare shows us both the dramatic action on the battlefield in Norway and the machinations and personal relationships in Westminster that led up to this crucial point.
600 1 0 _aChurchill, Winston,
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
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651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xPolitics and government
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