title: The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
author:  John Lukacs 
description: Lukacs is a familiar name in World War II studies. These two volumes, released in 1990 and 1976, respectively, follow the key players on the other side of the Atlantic. The duelists in the first title are Churchill and Hitler, and this book covers the pivotal 80-day period in 1940 when the Germans were poised to crush British forces and invade the empire. The second volume offers a precise time line of events and describes both what happened and why. Lukacs concentrates not only on the historical but on the sociological aspects of the war. For all collections. <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  > “A gripping historical drama.… Lukacs’s story is not new, … but [he] has
  > transformed it into a memorable drama.” — M. F. Perutz, New York Review of
  > Books
  
  > “[A] fascinating work of historical reconstruction.… [Lukacs] gives us much
  > to ponder in this intriguing—and perhaps still controversial—story.”—Stanley
  > Weintraub, Wall Street Journal
  
  > “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 thripller,
  > using a wide range of government and private papers.” — David Pryce-Jones,
  > National Review
  
  > “Lukacs’s scholarship re-creates with great immediacy the chaotic few days
  > during which, according to the author, Hitler came closest to winning the
  > war.”—New Yorker
  
  > “Lukacs has a storyteller’s gift and writes beautifully on a subject that
  > might by lesser historians be taken for granted. Must reading for any World
  > War II scholar or bu