1939: Countdown to War - Softcover
'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The Times
Richard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace before the outbreak of World War Two.
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. And both sides acted knowing that they risked being plunged into a war that might spell the end the end of European civilization.
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'A brief but powerful story that comes at the very end of the twenty years of insecurity and crisis that followed the Great War', Overy's widely acclaimed account of the ten days prior to the British and French declarations of war recreates, hour-by-hour, the last days of peace, while setting the situation of Danzig and Poland - the trigger of conflict - in the context of the deteriorating European order during the 1930s.
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Overy is one of the great historians of the second world war -- Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times This country's most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element -- Michael Burleigh Evening Standard Nail-biting ... with rare narrative verve, he documents the ultimatums, emissaries, letters and increasingly desperate proposals that shuttled across Europe in the countdown to war -- Ian Thomson Independent Even those who think they know it all about how war broke out will learn something from Richard Overy's book -- Simon Heffer Literary Review One of the great historians of this conflict -- Simon Garfield Observer
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0141041307
- ISBN 13 9780141041308
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'A brilliantly executed extended essay that reads like a tense political thriller' Sunday Telegraph24 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. If they don't, world war will result.In this dramatic account Richard Overy re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace in 1939, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of European civilization.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. The one constant feature was the determination of Poland to fight against the armed might of Germany.Countdown to War brings to life a defining moment in the history of the twentieth century. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780141041308
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