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1939|Richard Overy

1939 : Countdown to War

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780143120063
  • ISBN-10: 0143120069
  • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
  • Publish Date: September 2011
  • Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
  • Page Count: 176
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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