Richard Overy

The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II

Herausgeber: Overy, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

World War Two re-assessed for a new generation, from the 1930s through to the beginnings of the Cold War. A stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible episodes in world history.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Illustrated History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 202mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1245g
• ISBN-13: 9780199605828
• ISBN-10: 0199605823
• Artikelnr.: 41975011

Autorenporträt

Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of more than twenty five books on the history of twentieth-century war and dictatorship, including the highly acclaimed Why the Allies Won (1995) and the prize-winning Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His most recent book is The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 (2013), shortlisted for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in military history.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction
1: Patricia Clavin: The Genesis of World War
2: Steven Lee: Japan's War in Asia
3: Nicola Labanca: The Italian Wars
4: Richard Overy: The German Wars
5: Eric Grove: The West and the War at Sea
6: Evan Mawdsley: The Allies from Defeat to Victory
7: David French: Fighting Power: World War and Military Innovation
8: Richard Overy: Economies in Total War
9: Michael Snape: Front Line I: Armed Forces at War
10: Richard Overy: Front Line II: Civilians at War
11: Richard Bessel: Unnatural Deaths
12: David Edgerton: War, Invention, and Experts
13: David Welch: The Culture of War: Propaganda, Arts and Ideas
14: Geoffrey Roberts: From World War to Cold War
Epilogue
Further Reading
Index