Darkest Hour

<p>James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian writer and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently <i>Brothers In Arms</i> and <i>Normandy '44</i> he is also the author of nine works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.<br><br>He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC Channel 4 National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. <br><br>With Al Murray he has a successful Second World War podcast <i>We Have Ways of Making You Talk</i> which also has its own festival and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.</p> Old-fashioned testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty all action yarn! Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff and his descriptions of the action are terrific Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it This is a well-researched page-turner that keeps you hungry for more. An exciting tale full of historical details and action <p><b>'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics' </b><i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><b>'Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty all action yarn!' </b><i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><b>'Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff and his descriptions of the action are terrific' </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><b>'Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it' </b><i>Daily Mail</i><br><b>_______________________________</b><br><br><b>Dunkirk 1940: </b><b>One man must stem the Nazi tide...</b><br><br>Sergeant Jack Tanner has been posted to a training company on the south-east coast of England where the mysterious deaths of two Polish refugees lead him to believe there has been foul play.<br><br>As the Germans launch their Blitzkrieg in Europe the entire company are sent to join the battle to stop Hitler's drive across the Low Countries. Pitted against the die-hard Nazis of the SS 'Death's Head' Division and the great panzer commander General Rommel himself it is left to Tanner to get his men back to Allied lines.<br><br>But if they are to have any hope of surviving the mayhem of Dunkirk Tanner must first deal with an enemy far more deadly than the Germans...<br><br><b>Jack Tanner's adventures continue in Blood of Honour.</b><br><br><i>The new sweeping World War II book from James Holland THE SAVAGE STORM is available for pre-order now.</i><br><b>_______________________________</b><br><br><b>Readers love</b><i><b> Darkest Hour:</b></i><br><br><b>'Very difficult to put down'</b><br><b>'An amazing read'</b><br><b>'An adventure from start to finish but with great historical facts thrown in'</b></p>