Second World War - Hardcover

Keegan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091740118 ISBN 13: 9780091740115

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1989

Synopsis

By the author of "The Price of Admiralty", this book approaches the war from a thematic and periodic standpoint. The course of the war is divided into six passages and attached to each is an analytical narrative of a battle, which exemplifies a mode of warfare special to this war, such as city sieges, an air battle, an airborne operation, an aircraft carrier battle, a tank battle and an amphibious landing. The author takes as his starting point the outcome of the First World War, and what it meant in particular for the defeated nations, and how the developed world reacted to its first experience of mass warfare. He surveys the strategic positioning of all the major combatants to summarize the strategic progress of the war. In addition all the major ancillary activities to which the war gave rise are discussed: war supply, war production, strategic bombing, occupation and repression, espionage and resistance, and the secret weapons programmes.

About this title

Product Description:

Edition Hutchinson, First Impression, 1989. A SIGNED COPY. ISBN: 0-09-174011-8. HARDBACK. 608 pages, large size: 19.5 x 25.5 x 5 cm. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the unread book remains in excellent condition: dust cover intact; navy cloth hard cover bright with gilt lettering on spine; text all clean, neat and tight. Immaculate throughout. Prompt dispatch from UK.

Review:

"[John Keegan] has a remarkable capacity to appreciate both the political context of the war and its immediate meaning for those caught in the heat of battle... Lucid, informed and authoritative" (Sunday Times)

"In this magnificently illustrated volume, our most original military historian gives the whys and wherefores of war as well as the blood and guts." (Mail on Sunday)

"John Keegan's history of World War II stands above the competition" (Preview)

"A graceful writer as well as a knowledgeable student of martial history, [Keegan] enlivens his chronicle with wry wit... An informed and informative accounting of a horrific war" (Kirkus Reviews)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0091740118
• ISBN 13: 9780091740115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608