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1939: Countdown to War
Full title: | 1939: Countdown to War |
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ISBN: | 9780143120063 |
ISBN 10: | 0143120069 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Books |
Edition: | Reprint |
Num. pages: | 158 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2011 |
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Synopsis
"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.