When Britain Saved the WestHow Britain, standing alone, persevered in the face of near certain defeat at the hands of Nazi Germany From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitlers Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britains defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the timewar diaries,