1939: Countdown to War Paperback - 2011
by Richard Overy
"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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"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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- Title 1939: Countdown to War
- Author Richard Overy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2011-09-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780143120063 / 0143120069
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.531
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