1939: Countdown to War
- ISBN-10
- 1101500417
- ISBN-13
- 9781101500415
- Series
- 1939
- Category
- History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09-23
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Richard Overy
Description
"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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