Richard Lamb, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-05858-6
In details amassed from memoirs, correspondence, interviews and official archives, British historian Lamb ( Montgomery in Europe ) retraces political events from the 1919 Versailles peace treaty to the outbreak of WW II in 1939. In an interesting if
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Richard Lamb, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-88184-937-0
Lamb, a Churchill admirer, has written an instructive study of the British prime minister's wartime mistakes and questionable directives. His greatest blunder, according to Lamb ( The Drift to War ), was the 1940 order to sink the French fleet at...
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Richard Lamb, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-312-11093-2
Based in part on newly opened Italian archives, Lamb's review of the final two years of WW II from the Italian viewpoint offers several surprises. Chronicling the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis against Italian civilians, the persecution of...
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