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Search - Last Hope Island: Britain's Brotherhood with Occupied Europe, and the Unsung Heroes Who Turned the Tide of War

Last Hope Island Britain's Brotherhood with Occupied Europe and the Unsung Heroes Who Turned the Tide of War
Author: Lynne Olson

From the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days, a groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler. When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continent... more »al Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the governments and armed forces of six occupied nations -- Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and Poland -- who escaped there to continue the fight. So, too, did General Charles de Gaulle, the self-appointed representative of free France.

As the only European democracy still holding out against Hitler, Britain became known to occupied countries as "Last Hope Island." Getting there, one young emigre declared, was "like getting to heaven." In this epic, character-driven narrative, acclaimed historian Lynne Olson takes us back to those perilous days when the British and their European guests joined forces to combat the mightiest military force in history. Here we meet the courageous King Haakon of Norway, whose distinctive "H7" monogram became a symbol of his country's resistance to Nazi rule, and his fiery Dutch counterpart, Queen Wilhelmina, whose anti-fascist radio broadcasts rallied the spirits of her defeated people. Here, too, is the Earl of Suffolk, a swashbuckling British aristocrat whose rescue of two nuclear physicists from France helped make the Manhattan Project possible. Surprising bit players emerge as well: a young Audrey Hepburn, who served as a courier for the Dutch resistance, and four-year-old Madlenka Korbel, the daughter of an exiled Czech government official, who survived Luftwaffe bombardment and grew up to become U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Last Hope Island also recounts some of the Europeans' heretofore unsung exploits that helped tilt the balance against the Axis: the crucial efforts of Polish pilots -- more than a hundred in all -- during the Battle of Britain; the vital role played by French and Polish code breakers in cracking the Germans' reputedly indecipherable Enigma code; and the flood of top-secret intelligence about German operations -- gathered by spies throughout occupied Europe -- that helped insure the success of the 1944 Allied invasion.

A fascinating companion to Citizens of London, Olson's bestselling chronicle of the Anglo-American alliance, Last Hope Island recalls with vivid humanity that brief moment in time when the peoples of Europe stood together in their effort to roll back the tide of conquest and restore order to a broken continent.

ISBN-13: 9780812997354
ISBN-10: 0812997352
Publication Date: 3/7/2017
Pages: 553
Rating:

Currently 4.8/5 Stars.

4.8 stars, based on 2 ratings

Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genres:

History >> Europe >> England
History >> Military >> World War II
Uncategorized >> International & World Politics >> European

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