Fateful Choices  -  Ian Kershaw

Ten Decisions That Changed the World 1940-1941

KORTE INHOUD

Ian Kershaw's Fateful Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined.In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe's Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.'Powerfully argued ... important ... this book actually alters our perspective of the Second World War' Andrew Roberts'This fascinating, closely-argued book adds to our understanding of a terrible war' Alan Massie'A compelling re-examination of the conflict ... Kershaw displays here those same qualities o...
2008 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2008 Uitgever: Penguin 672 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0141014180 ISBN-13: 9780141014180
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