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1939 Countdown to War

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ISBN-10: 0143120069

ISBN-13: 9780143120063

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Overy

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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, 1939takes 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…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.09" wide x 7.74" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Richard Overy is Professor in History at the University of Exeter. Formerly Professor of Modern History at King's College, London, his books include William Morris, Viscount Nuffield The Air War, 1939-1945 Dictators, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938, Goering: The Iron Man All Our Working Lives (with Peter Pagnamenta), The Origins Of The Second World War, The Road To War (with Andrew Wheatcroft), War And Economy In The Third Reich, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939, Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945, and The Battle: Summer 1