Al Murray

From the Italian Alps to northern Germany to London New York Washington and Tokyo Victory 45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world changing events from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world

The incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24 hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author Utterly brilliant this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem James Holland bestselling author of The Savage Storm Superb A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best Saul David historian and bestselling author of Sky Warriors The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best known stories in British military history a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944 It is always written about with the benefit of unerring 20 20 hindsight as being destined to fail but the men who fought there men of military legend didn t know that that was to be their fate Now in Arnhem Black Tuesday Al Murray focuses on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear offering a very different perspective on a familiar narrative Some things went right and a great many more went wrong but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and h

La extraordinaria historia del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Desde los Alpes italianos hasta el norte de Alemania, pasando por Londres, Nueva York, Washington y Tokio, Victoria 1945 narra la historia del extraordinario verano en el que la mayor conflagracion que el mundo habia conocido termino gracias a una serie de dramaticas rendiciones. En el 80.º aniversario de esos acontecimientos, los celebres historiadores James Holland y Al Murray exploran estas historicas capitulaciones. Mientras seguian los combates, empezaron las tentativas de rendicion rodeadas de dramas, conspiraciones, traiciones, robos de obras de arte de incalculable valor, operaciones gigantescas de falsificacion de moneda, intentos de golpes de Estado de militares japoneses para continuar luchando e increibles acciones desesperadas por parte de nazis para tratar de librarse de la horca. Acompañando a figuras como Ike, Montgomery, MacArthur, Truman o Hirohito y a otras menos conocidas como Karl Wolff, Ernst Kaltenbrunner o Kenji Hatanaka, veremos los ultimos combates de la Segunda Guerra Mundial bajo una luz completamente nueva y comprenderemos que llevo a acordar los terminos de rendicion que, en ultima instancia, determinarian la configuracion del mundo en el que vivimos hoy.