The Road to War: The Origins of World War II

ISBN-13: 9781845951306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 576 str.

Dr Richard Overy

Opis

Almost 70 years after the start of World War II, Richard Overy & Andrew Wheatcroft ask the question of why the nations of the world found themselves embroiled in conflict. Step-by-step, they reconstruct the perspective of each country as it marched down the road to war: Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, & the United States.

Recenzje

The best short work on the origins of the second world war. It is a masterpiece of compression Literary Review

O autorze

Richard Overy is Professor in History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of books on the Second World War, the European dictatorships and the history of air power. His latest titles include Why the Allies Won (2nd edn 2006), The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004) and The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (2009). He is a fellow of the British Academy and winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 2005.

Andrew Wheatcroft is the author of many pioneerign books on early modern adn modern history, including The Ottomans (1993) and The Enemy at the Gate (2008). he is based in Dumfriesshire adn is Professor and Director of the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling.