World War II - The Autobiography

Informationen zum Autor JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day , Voices from the Holocaust , The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War . He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman , the Independent , Time Out and the Guardian . He lives in Herefordshire. Klappentext The history of WW2 from September 1939 til VJ day through the personal accounts of soldiers ! speeches! diaries and official records. A lot of primary source material from people who actually lived through it and survived. The stories are from all sides of the conflict. Zusammenfassung A remarkable series of eye-witness accounts covering the entire course of the war, from Hitler ordering war on 31 August 1939 to an account of the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 by Tatsuichiru Akizuki.

A propos de l'auteur

JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jon E. Lewis
• Collaboration: Jon E. Lewis (Editeur)
• Edition: Robinson Publishing
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9781849010030
• ISBN: 978-1-84901-003-0
• Pages: 624
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 132 mm x 38 mm
• Thèmes: Constable Paperbacks; Brief Histories; Brief Histories
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Biographies, autobiographies; Zweiter Weltkrieg, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General