Overview
"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --Evening Standard (London)A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates the jockeying for advantage that set Europe's greatest powers on a collision course. Would Stalin join Hitler in a bid to divide Poland and flout the West? Would Britain and France succeed in forcing Germany to reason? And how far would a defiant Poland push its claim to exist? In the summer of 1939, the course of events was anything but assured, as this exceptionally absorbing book drives home.
- | Author: Richard Overy
- | Publisher: Penguin Books
- | Publication Date: Sep 27, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 176 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0143120069
- | ISBN-13: 9780143120063
