Defending the Rock

by Nicholas Rankin

Book Overview

Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, every day Gibraltar had to let thousands of people cross its frontier to work. Among them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571307701
• ISBN13: 9780571307708
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.