He does not negate Hitler’s strategic mind, and also controversially suggests how he may have purposefully allowed Britain off the hook at Dunkirk. He was also Visiting History Professor at Princeton. He emigrated to the United States, where he worked as respected professor of history in Philadelphia until 2003. Soon after the war he fled Hungary as it headed towards a Communist regime. He managed to escape forced labour and evade deportation to a Nazi death camp. As a young man during WWII, he had gone into hiding for two years in a cellar in Budapest. The Hungarian-American author Lukacs died last year at the age of 95. It was recommended as the best account of the kind of pressure that the United Kingdom was under in the days leading up to the Battle of Britain: Neville Chamberlain just had resigned as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill had just taken up his crucial first few days in office, and the ‘wolf’ was at the door. I picked up Five Days in London by John Lukacs about a year ago from the local library. Soul City Wanderer briefs on a book that concisely lays out the kind of pressure the country was under eighty years ago. The UK commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 2020. Five Days in London – May 1940 by John Lukacs (Yale, 1999).
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