Five Days in London, May 1940
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"Customers are raving about Five Days in London."--Amazon.com
"John Lukacs's account of five dramatic days in May 1940, when Winston Churchill and his Cabinet had to decide whether to negotiate or stand alone against Hitler, is a relatively compact book, but it has the power and sweep of Shakespeare's chronicle plays. . . . One of Lukacs's impressive strengths is a gripping narrative drive. He is lucid and splendidly readable, and furthermore, commands a host of dramatic characters."--Robert Taylor, Boston Globe
"This is a readable and rigorous little volume that is put down with difficulty in the middle and with regret at the end."--Conrad Black, Daily Telegraph
"This is as dramatic a moment in history as you are likely to get."--Forbes Magazine
"[A] word-of-mouth best seller (and Giuliani favorite) . . . [a] gripping story of how Churchill rallied the British at a crucial juncture."--Michael Glitz, New York Post
"Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form. His masterpiece, Five Days in London, 1940, was immediately recognized as a modern classic. The wonderful clarity of his thought led directly to the clarity of his prose. Lukacs, an American professor of Hungarian birth and the author of nearly 30 works, is undoubtedly one of the wisest thinkers on the period."--Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe & Mail
"A page-turner. . . . Painstaking, meticulous, and fascinating."--America
"Lukacs has constructed a gripping narrative. . . . This is a must for every World War II buff."--Jules Wagman, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Thanks to John Lukacs, we now have a far clearer understanding of that time nearly 60 years ago that held such dangerous and courageous choices for the future of mankind."--Calvin L. Christman, Dallas Morning News
"Superb. . . . John Lukacs's book--at once a provocative work of history and a marvelous historical entertainment, one that can be compared to such classics as Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler and Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August--offers a timely reminder of that a debt the world owes Sir Winston Churchill."--Michael Korda, Harper's Magazine
"Those concerned with the long tides of history and with the coils of chance in human destiny will delight in the elegant, searching and affecting book Lukacs has written about a critical time."--Lynwood Abram, Houston Chronicle
"A superb reconstruction of a crucial moment in the war."--Brian Bethune, Maclean's
"A readable, scholarly, suspenseful book. . . . Like the rest of Lukacs' books, this one deserves the highest recommendation: it is the work of a master at the top of his form."--Lewis Bernstein, Military Reform
"[Lukacs] brings to his topic, as to everything else he has treated, a sparkling and original mind."--Michael Howard, National Interest
"Between May 24 and May 28 [1940], history itself was in the balance, and Lukacs reconstructs these days with the immediacy and detail of a thriller, using a wide range of government and private papers."--David Pryce-Jones, National Review
"John Lukacs is one of the most original and profound of contemporary thinkers."--Paul Fussell
"No historian of the Second World War has John Lukac's range, acuteness, intuition. He has written great works. Now comes a masterpiece. In the Five Days in London weare present, moment by moment, May 24 to May 28, 1940 as the British War Cabinet ponders whether to seek terms from Hitler, or fight on. Alone. . . . 'Not only the end of a European war but the end of Western civilization was near.' In the end Churchill prevails--just."--Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"I consider John Lukacs one of the outstanding historians of the generation and, indeed, of our time."--Jacques Barzun
