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Guidance from the Greatest: What the World War Two generation can teach us about how we live our lives [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 196x126x20 mm, weight: 180 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 06-May-2021
  • Leidėjas: Constable
  • ISBN-10: 147213513X
  • ISBN-13: 9781472135131
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 196x126x20 mm, weight: 180 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 06-May-2021
  • Leidėjas: Constable
  • ISBN-10: 147213513X
  • ISBN-13: 9781472135131
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
'We will overcome it [ and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The Queen





The Coronavirus pandemic forced the great British people to dig to the very depths of their resolve. It was during this crisis, the gravest crisis the country has faced since the Second World War, that members of the Greatest Generation - Tom Moore, Dame Vera Lynn, the Queen - proved vital reminders of the self-effacing stoicism required in times of emergency; to summon our 'Blitz spirit' and to 'Keep Calm and Carry On'.





Taking twelve qualities of the wartime generation, including fellowship, courage and integrity, and drawing on personal interviews with over two hundred Second World War veterans - from SAS officers to London firewomen to Dame Vera herself - Guidance from the Greatest shows us how we can improve our individual character and our collective approach to life.





Guidance from the Greatest reminds us of all that is great about Britain and shows how we can build upon that greatness for the future.

Recenzijos

Inspiring * Daily Mail *

Introduction 1(6)
Chapter 1 Stoicism
7(16)
Chapter 2 Fellowship
23(14)
Chapter 3 Ingenuity
37(16)
Chapter 4 Liberality
53(18)
Chapter 5 Selflessness
71(16)
Chapter 6 Courage
87(16)
Chapter 7 Vitality
103(18)
Chapter 8 Integrity
121(18)
Chapter 9 Duty
139(18)
Chapter 10 Self-Discipline
157(14)
Chapter 11 Humour
171(14)
Chapter 12 Forgiveness
185
Gavin Mortimer is a best-selling writer, historian and TV consultant whose versatile narrative non-fiction books have been published in Britain and the United States. Gavin is the leading authority on WW2 special forces having interviewed over 100 veterans, and his next work, to be published in 2020 and 2021, is a two-volume battlefield guide to SAS operations in France in 1944.