Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Overy, Richard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 9/27/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“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.
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