In Never Surrender Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War from the soldiers fighting abroad to those battling on the home front & creates an extraordinary portrait of a generation fighting for survival. Beginning with first-hand accounts of the reaction to Chamberlain's declaration of war in 1939 Kershaw portrays the many aspects of war through the words of those who were there from the sailors of the little ships of Dunkirk to German soldiers preparing for Operation ' Sea Lion'. He takes us from the nightly horrors of the Blitz to battles in the limitless desert of North Africa & from jungle war in Burma to Lancaster bombers over Germany & the beaches of Normandy. Featuring new interviews with veterans & civilians from Britain the Commonwealth & Germany as well as diaries letters & first-hand accounts this is a testimony to the remarkable men & women who lived through the Second World War
- whose refusal to surrender changed them & Britain forever.