1939: Countdown to War |
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| Authors: | Overy, Richard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS027100, HIS037070, HIS010020 |
| ISBN: | 9781101500415, Related ISBNs: 0143120069, 0670022098, 1101500417, 9780143120063, 9780670022090 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 176, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
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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