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'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory. Built in 1938 as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attack, this secret bunker became a second home to Churchill - and to large numbers of military personnel and civil servants whose work until now has been largely unsung. Drawing on a fascinating range of original material, including newly available first-hand accounts of the people who lived there, Holmes reveals how and why the bunker and its war machine developed; how the inhabitants' lives were transformed; and how their work led to victory. Elegant and illuminating, Churchill's Bunker is a unique exploration of one of the most important sites in British history.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Churchill's Bunker
• Author: Richard Holmes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781846682315
• ISBN: 1846682312
• ID: 04278692
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Weight: 228 g
• Dimensions: 194 × 126 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. June 2011

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