Stone--one of the greatest living historians of the 20th century--provides an unprecedentedly concise, utterly authoritative account of the deadliest war of human history. Over 60 million people perished in World War Two, and the story of how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of the Great War is shocking, tragic, and also completely preventable in hindsight.
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ISBN:9780465013722 (hbk.)
ISBN:0465013724 (hbk.)
Physical Description:print xxvi, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Publisher:New York : Basic Books, c2012.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Between the wars -- Germany ascendant -- Barbarossa -- Pearl Harbor and North Africa -- The Russian turn-around -- Fanaticism and hate, muddle and delay -- Nazism and communism -- West and East -- The end.
Summary: Stone--one of the greatest living historians of the 20th century--provides an unprecedentedly concise, utterly authoritative account of the deadliest war of human history. Over 60 million people perished in World War Two, and the story of how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of the Great War is shocking, tragic, and also completely preventable in hindsight.
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