1939: Countdown to War

Informationen zum Autor Richard Overy is Honorary Research Professor of History at the University of Exeter and one of Britain's most distinguished historians. His major works include The Dictators, winner of the 2005 Wolfson Prize, The Morbid Age and The Bombing War, which won a Cundill Award for Historical Excellence in 2014. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Klappentext Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that shaped the cataclysm of the Second World War, particularly in his books The Origins of the Second World War , The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939 , Why the Allies Won, Russia's War and The Morbid Age. Since 2004 he has been Professor in History at the University of Exeter. Richard Overy's book, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia , won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize. Zusammenfassung 24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Overy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.04.2010
• EAN: 9780141041308
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104130-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Europe, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)