Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II

Deighton, Len

ISBN 10: 0785811141 / ISBN 13: 9780785811145

Edité par Castle Books, a division of Book Sales, Inc., Edison, New Jersey, USA, 1999

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Castle Books, a division of Book Sales, Inc., Edison, New Jersey, USA, 1999. Apparent First (1st) Printing of this First Edition Thus in 1999. The book was originally published in the UK in 1993 by Jonathan Cape, and by HarperCollins in the USA in the same year. Near Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with frequent underlining and a prior owner's signature at the top of the "Also by Len Deighton" page. The Binding is black quarter cloth to burgundy boards, colors uniform throughout, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked endpapers with maps and drawings by Denis Bishop, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is flawless - colors bright and uniform throughout, and intact with the original price ($30.00) intact on the front flap and a tiny closed tear at the top rear of the spine. See the accompanying photos. xvii, 653 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". An examination of the Second World War up to 1942, focusing on its origins, the assumptions made by the parties, especially the British, the disastrous Norgewian Campaign, the Phoney War, the errors that led to Dunkirk, and Pearl Harbor. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 1,164 grams / 41.1 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0785811141 / ISBN 13: 9780785811145.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
• Éditeur: Castle Books, a division of Book Sales, Inc., Edison, New Jersey, USA
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0785811141
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780785811145
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Denis Bishop
• Édition: First Edition Thus
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Dimensions: 6,25 L x 9,5 H x 0 P (en pouces) 6,25 pouces de largeur par 9,5 pouces de hauteur par 0 pouces de profondeur
• Poids: 41,1 onces

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Book by Deighton Len

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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.