1939

Countdown to War

von Richard Overy

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780143120063
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2011
• Größe: 195 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC