Six Minutes in May

Resumen del libro

*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' ObserverLondon, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking the helm, but in Six Minutes in May Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction.

It took just six minutes for MPs to cast the votes that brought down Chamberlain. Shakespeare moves from Britain's disastrous battle in Norway, for which many blamed Churchill, on to the dramatic developments in Westminster that led to Churchill becoming Prime Minister. Uncovering fascinating new research and delving into the key players' backgrounds, Shakespeare gives us a new perspective on this critical moment in our history.

Biografía del autor

Nicholas Shakespeare nació en 1957.Hijo de un diplomático, pasó buena partede su juventud en el Extremo Oriente ySudamérica. Se ha desempeñado comoperiodista para la BBC y como editorliterario en The Times, The Daily Telegraph,y The Sunday Telegraph. Entreotras, Pasos de baile, elegida en 1997como la mejor novela del año y trasladadaal cine en 2001 por John Malkovich. En1993, fue elegido uno de los nuevostalentos literarios de Reino Unido por larevista Granta y, desde 1999, es miembrode la Royal Society of Literature.