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From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume...
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume...
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2013.
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English
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"From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battles that sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war, from the German invasion of Belgium to the Marne to Ypres, were utterly...
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Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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In a story of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph, a renowned historian recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II--the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but Churchill's instincts were correct. There is a poignant ambiguity...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Forces 617 Squadron. The attack on Nazi Germanys dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Forces 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering...
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