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1939: Countdown to War

Autor Richard Overy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2010
'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot,The Times

Richard Overy's1939: Countdown to War
re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace before the outbreak of World War Two.

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down. And both sides acted knowing that they risked being plunged into a war that might spell the end the end of European civilization.
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ISBN-13: 9780141041308
ISBN-10: 0141041307
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that shaped the cataclysm of the Second World War, particularly in his booksThe Origins of the Second World War,The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939,Why the Allies Won,Russia's WarandThe Morbid Age.Since 2004 he has been Professor in History at the University of Exeter.

Richard Overy's book,The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.