1939: Countdown to War - Richard Overy
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"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --"Evening Standard" (London) A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, "1939" takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates the j ... Full description
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"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --"Evening Standard" (London)
A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, "1939" takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates the jockeying for advantage that set Europe's greatest powers on a collision course. Would Stalin join Hitler in a bid to divide Poland and flout the West? Would Britain and France succeed in forcing Germany to reason? And how far would a defiant Poland push its claim to exist? In the summer of 1939, the course of events was anything but assured, as this exceptionally absorbing book drives home.
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| Author | Richard Overy |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Penguin Random House LLC |
| Release year | 2011 |
| Cover type | Softcover |
| EAN | 9780143120063 |