1939: Countdown to War
by Richard Overy 2020-05-07 15:12:03
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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 ... Read more
"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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  • 5.40x7.80x0.75inches
  • 158
  • Viking Books
  • September 23, 2010
  • English
  • 9780670022090
Richard Overy is Professor in History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of books on the Second World War, the European dictatorships and the history of air power. His latest titles include...
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