The Second World War

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THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
For the veiy first time, a leading military historian has taken the incredibly complex material surro\anding the Second World War and forged it into a brilliantly unified acco\xnt. A. J. P. I^ylor has put the puzzle together in a cohesive, objective narrative that tells us WHAT happened,
HOW it happened and WHY. The compelling drama sweeps from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, through more than a decade of international conflict, to the imcondltional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945. Dr. Taylor sheds clear new light on such piazzling questions as: Why did Great Britain and France go to war for the sake of Poland? * Why was France so catastrophically defeated? * Why did Hitler attack Russia? * What was the decisive turning point? * Was imconditional surrender a wise policy? * What were the consequences of the Second World War? * Why did the Cold War follow? *
A BRTLLIAIIT ACCOXmr OP THE MOST DEVASTATING EVENT IN... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
For the veiy first time, a leading military historian has taken the incredibly complex material surro\anding the Second World War and forged it into a brilliantly unified acco\xnt. A. J. P. I^ylor has put the puzzle together in a cohesive, objective narrative that tells us WHAT happened,
HOW it happened and WHY. The compelling drama sweeps from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, through more than a decade of international conflict, to the imcondltional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945. Dr. Taylor sheds clear new light on such piazzling questions as: Why did Great Britain and France go to war for the sake of Poland? * Why was France so catastrophically defeated? * Why did Hitler attack Russia? * What was the decisive turning point? * Was imconditional surrender a wise policy? * What were the consequences of the Second World War? * Why did the Cold War follow? *
A BRTLLIAIIT ACCOXmr OP THE MOST DEVASTATING EVENT IN MODERN HISTORY, VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED, AUTHORITATIVELY TOLD! A MUitaiy Book Gluh Selection "Compressing his facts with rare skill and judgement, he manages to set forth in its awesome totality an epic tragedy in exceptionally lucid terms - hiunan, economic, political, military." Publishers Weekly
"An impossible task - it woiild seem - writing the histoiy of World War II between the covers of a 240-page book, but that's just what A. J. P. Taylor has done in this forceful, and at times controversial, commentary."
Navy Times
" .The finest single-volume account of World War II that we are likely to see for some time'.' Chicago Daily News Vissza