Nineteen Weeks is Norman Moss’s riveting account of the events in 1940 that changed Britain and America forever. The weeks between May and September 1940 saw Hitler’s stunning conquest of France, Britain’s struggle against the threat of invasion, and a passionate debate in the United States over the proper response to these events. Two battles raged in that summer, both vital to Britain’s the battle for Europe and then for mastery of the skies over Britain, and in America the battle for public and political opinion, between those who believed that America had a stake in the defeat of Hitler and the isolationists. Norman Moss moves swiftly between the battlefields of Europe and the halls of Congress, between struggle in the air and in American political convention halls. He gives us a fresh view of ‘our finest hour.’ 'Vivid…a gripping account of the historic opening months of World War Two' - WASHINGTON POST 'Engaging . . . a must for anyone supposing that American involvement in World War II began with Pearl Harbor' - BOOKLIST 'A terrific history of a little-understood moment when freedom faced its darkest hour' - NEW REPUBLIC