1939: Countdown to War-Quality Guarantee

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“Overy’s book is easily the best account of Europe’s and destruction.” —Evening Standard (London)

A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreakof history’s greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour byhour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate ofmillions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfullyrecreates the jockeying for advantage that set Europe’s greatest powerson a collision course. Would Stalin join Hitler in a bid to dividePoland and flout the West? Would Britain and France succeed in forcingGermany to reason? And how far would a defiant Poland push its claim toexist? In the summer of 1939, the course of events was anything butassured, as this exceptionally absorbing book drives home.