SECOND WORLD WAR,THE (HB)

Εκδότης: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Συγγραφέας: BEEVOR,ANTONY
Isbn: 9780297844976
Διαστάσεις: 242Χ161Χ54
Αριθμός σελίδων: 880
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 6/6/2012
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Περιγραφη

"A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War. Moral choice forms the basis of all human drama, and no other period in history has presented greater dilemmas both for leaders and ordinary people, nor off