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1939 Countdown to War

by [Overy, Richard]

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"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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  • Penguin Publishing Group Brand
  • Sep 27, 2011 Pub Date:
  • 9780143120063 ISBN-13:
  • 0143120069 ISBN-10:
  • English Language
  • 7.75 in * 0.44 in * 5.06 in Dimensions:
  • 0 lb Weight: