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A New History of the Second World War
HarperCollins
May 2011
On Sale: May 17, 2011
768 pages
ISBN: 0061228591
EAN: 9780061228599
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From "Britain's finest military historian" (The Economist)
comes a magisterial new history of World War II and the
flawed axis strategy that led to their defeat. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5
trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million
people. What were the factors that affected the war's
outcome? Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a
different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new
history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account
of this epic con?ict. From the western front to North
Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story
of the war—the grand strategy and the individual experience,
the cruelty and the heroism—as never before. In researching this magnificently vivid history, Roberts
walked many of the key battlefields and wartime sites in
Russia, France, Italy, Germany, and the Far East, and drew
on a number of never-before-published documents, such as a
letter from Hitler's director of military operations
explaining the reasoning behind the FÜhrer's order to halt
the Panzers outside Dunkirk—a delay that enabled British
forces to evacuate. Roberts illuminates the principal actors
on both sides and analyzes how they reached critical
decisions. He also presents the tales of many little-known
individuals whose experiences form a panoply of the
extraordinary courage and self-sacrifice, as well as the
terrible depravity and cruelty, of the Second World War. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Storm
of War gives a dramatic account of this momentous event and
shows in remarkable detail why the war took the course it did.
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