Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: History, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781529923698
Published: November 2024
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 496
Format: Paperback
RRP 345.00

November 1942

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*A Telegraph History Book of the Year, 2023*

'An astonishing achievement'
ANTONY BEEVOR
'A remarkably moving and humane book' WILLIAM BOYD

An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.

At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could win the war; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose.

In between came el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea, and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. In this innovatively kaleidoscopic and riveting historical...

About the Author

Peter Englund

Peter Englund

Peter Englund (Author) Peter Englund is a historian, journalist and member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten books, most recently The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War, and has won various literary prizes for his work including the August prize for the best Swedish book of the year and the Sela Lagerlof Literary Prize.

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Peter Graves

Peter Graves

Peter Graves was born in Wales. He studied German and Swedish at the University of Aberdeen and later taught Scandinavian languages, literature and culture at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He has been awarded a number of prizes for his translation work.

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