1939
Countdown to War
Nonfiction, History, Western Europe, Modern, 20th Century, Military, World War II
| Author: | Richard Overy | ISBN: | 9781101500415 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | September 23, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Richard Overy |
| ISBN: | 9781101500415 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | September 23, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
"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.
"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.
