Fateful Choices; Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

Kershaw, Ian

ISBN 10: 1594201234 / ISBN 13: 9781594201233

Published by Penguin Press 978-1-59420-123-3, New York

[978-1-59420-123-3] 2007, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 624pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge. Book about , Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Theodore Roosevelt & Josef Stalin. Time Period 1940. (World War 2, International Relations, Politics--Europe, World Affairs, World Leaders, World War 2). Seller Inventory # 138328

Synopsis:

Dramatically recreates a sequence of ten decisions made by six major leaders between May 1940 and December 1941 that reshaped human destiny, from Churchill's war cabinet's choice to continue fighting after the German blitzkrieg defeat of France and Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union to Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. and his subsequent decision to eliminate Jewish citizens.

About the Author: Ian Kershaw studied at Liverpool and Oxford universities. He has taught at the University of Manchester, at the Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, at the University of Nottingham, and since 1989 has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author, most recently, of Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and the definitive two-volume biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis. The first volume was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, and the second volume won the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the inaugural British Academy Book Prize.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fateful Choices; Ten Decisions That Changed ...
Publisher: Penguin Press 978-1-59420-123-3, New York
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition