Vintage Book: Winston Churchill’s Closing the Ring

Vintage hardcover book with minor wear and a name written on the inside cover from the previous owner. This printing is from the original publishing date in 1951, Houghton Mifflin Company edition. Closing the ring covers the decisive twelve months during WW2 between June 1943 and June 1944. Command of the seas had returned to Allied hands, the U-boats were mastered and the Luftwaffe beaten. These achievements made possible the 'closing of the ring' which was to extinguish Axis resistance and eventually end the war. The danger was no longer defeat but stalemate. Russian armies were driving the German invaders back into their own country, Italy was freed from the fascist yoke and Africa was cleared. However, before the Allies lay the formidable task of invading the aggressors in their own land. Frankly and unreservedly, Sir Winston Churchill reveals the tensions and divergences of opinions concerning how best to achieve this among the three great partners, Britain, USA and Russia. Pick up in the Ossington and Davenport area.

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