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A remarkably vivid bank account of a key moment in American record: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether the British would fight Hitler. London in April, 1940, was a place of great dread and conflict. Individuals were on edge; civilization itself felt imperiled. The Germans are marching. They took Poland, France, Holland, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia. They now menace Britain. Should Britain make a deal with Germany? The participants of the Warfare Cupboard bicker, yell, lose their control, and are divided. Churchill, leading the faction to fight, and Lord Halifax, cautioning that prudence is the way to survive, attempt to usurp each other by any means possible. Their country is on the line. And, in Never Surrender, we feel we are alongside these complex and imperfect men, identifying the fate of the British Empire. Pulling on the Warfare Cabinet papers, other government documents, private diaries, paper accounts, and memoirs, historian John Kelly instructs the storyplot of the summertime of 1940 - the weeks of the "Supreme Question" of whether or not the British were to surrender. Impressive in range and mindful of detail, Kelly can take listeners from the battlefield to Parliament, to the government ministries, to the British high command word, to the needy Anglo-French convention in Paris and London, to the American embassy in London, and to life with the ordinary Britons. He brings alive one of the most heroic occasions of the twentieth hundred years and intimately portrays a few of its largest players - Churchill, Lord Halifax, FDR, Joe Kennedy, Hitler, Stalin, and more. Never Surrender is the perfect, grand narrative of an essential period in World Warfare II record and the women and men who molded it.
