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1939: Countdown to War - Couverture souple

Overy, Richard

 
9780143120063: 1939: Countdown to War
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0143120069 ISBN 13 : 9780143120063
Editeur : Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

"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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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Overy is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, U.K. A leading expert on the history of the Second World War, he has written such acclaimed books as The Twilight Years, Why the Allies Won, and The Dictators, winner of the Wolfson Prize in 2005.

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Éditeur
Penguin Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0143120069
ISBN 13 
9780143120063
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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