It takes the average reader 7 hours and 15 minutes to read Darkest Hour by James Holland
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
It is May, 1940. Following his return from Norway and a short time on coast guard duty in Kent, Sergeant Jack Tanner finds himself in Belgium with the 1st Battalion of the Kings Own Yorkshire Rangers, under Captain Nick Barclay. Their task is to hold the bottom part of the British line along the River Escaut against an increasingly powerful and impressive German army. Just when things couldn't look worse, Tanner is dismayed to find that his new Company Sergeant Major is Bill Scrutton - a hard and unscrupulous former thief, and Tanner's first sergeant in India. Tanner and Scrutton loathe one...
Darkest Hour by James Holland is 432 pages long, and a total of 108,864 words.
This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 54 minutes to read Darkest Hour aloud.
Darkest Hour is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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