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Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Ian Kershaw
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Description for Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Paperback. Offers an insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped course of Second World War. This title 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. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 470.
Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141014180
SKU
V9780141014180
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99-40
About Ian Kershaw
IAN KERSHAW is the author of Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris; Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis; Making Friends with Hitler; and Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-4. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. Until his ... Read more
Reviews for Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
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 of scholarly rigour, careful argument and sound judgement that he brought to bear ... Read more
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 of scholarly rigour, careful argument and sound judgement that he brought to bear ... Read more