Blood, Tears And Folly: An Objective Look at World War II Re-is - Couverture souple

Deighton, Len

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099520494 ISBN 13 : 9780099520498

Editeur : Vintage, 2007

Synopsis

By 1942 the civilised world had been brought to the brink of ruin. It had taken the Axis powers less than three years to command the high seas in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific, to lay waste most of Europe and enslave millions in Asia, to drive deep into Stalin's Soviet empire and come within an ace of controlling the oilfields in the Middle East. At the height of their power the European dictators and the Japanese military autocracy ruled ruthlessly almost half the world. Standing alone, the British were bankrupt and the United States only driven from isolation by the humiliation at Pearl Harbour. Before the tide fully turned in 1943, millions had been put to death, the machinery of the holocaust was in place and nuclear devastation well on the way to become a reality. Yet, Deighton warns, fifty years on the lessons of the Second World War continue to reverberate unheeded. Racial hatred, ethnic cleansing, recession, trade wars and the widening gap between the world's rich and poor promise economic migration on a frightening scale. The dangers of today are seen all too clearly in this account of a recent time when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction.

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À propos de l?auteur

Len Deighton is the author of over thirty bestsellers of carefully researched fiction and non-fiction. His history writing was encouraged by A. J. P. Taylor and his books are noted for the picture they provide of the German side of the fighting as well as that of the Allies. His books include Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain and Blitzkrieg, both published by Pimlico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099520494
• ISBN 13: 9780099520498
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 672
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible