{"product_id":"1941-thirty-days-in-may","title":"1941: Thirty Days in May","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 1941. Somewhere in the Iraqi desert, an RAF flying school is all that stands between Hitler and the Middle East.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBased on real events…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Iraqi forces loyal to a pro-Nazi coup in Baghdad surround the sleepy British base at Habbaniya and demand its surrender, the station's commander faces an impossible choice. His weapons are obsolete biplanes. His handful of pilots are raw cadets. And help is two weeks' march away across the desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1941: Thirty Days in May\u003c\/em\u003e follows three people caught in one of the Second World War's most remarkable forgotten campaigns. Maddie Miller is an American secretly working for the British embassy in Baghdad, piecing together the coming storm from swirling rumours and intercepted signals. Colin Wood is an RAF pilot she desperately tries to warn of the danger to come. And James McGovern is a British officer with a relief column crawling across the desert from Palestine, knowing that if RAF Habbaniya falls before they arrive, the oil fields, and Britain's presence in the Middle East, fall with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold across six months and culminating in thirty frantic days in May, this is the story of how a handful of student pilots and their instructors held the line against an army of nine thousand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe start of a brand new series of Maddie Miller war stories. For fans of \u003cem\u003eMasters of the Air\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSAS: Rogue Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDunkirk\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J D Wood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59878598639948,"sku":"9781066714605","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":59878598672716,"sku":"9781066714612","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1108\/7347\/7452\/files\/1941-cover2.jpg?v=1794390325","url":"https:\/\/1dujst-ye.myshopify.com\/products\/1941-thirty-days-in-may","provider":"JD Wood Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}