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An edition of The Second World War: a complete history (1970)

The Second World War

a complete history

1st American ed.

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A history of the global war, weaving together all its aspects--political, military, diplomatic, and civilian.

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H. Holt
Language
English
Pages
846

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World War, 1939-1945 New York Times reviewed

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The Second World War: A Complete History
June 1, 2004, Holt Paperbacks
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Second World War
1995, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Second World War: a complete history
1989, H. Holt
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Second World War
1989, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 749-764.
Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53
Library of Congress
D743 .G6334 1989, D743.G6334 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 846 p., [64] p. of plates :
Number of pages
846

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2192334M
ISBN 10
080500534X
LCCN
89011129
OCLC/WorldCat
19778065
LibraryThing
13965
Goodreads
2493242

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Work ID
OL582157W

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Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, here offers a complete history of World War II.

It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day --August 14, 1945 -- it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war in history, taking the lives of forty million people.

With unparalleled scholarship and breadth of vision, Gilbert weaves together all of the war's aspects -- the political, the military, the diplomatic, and, not least, the civilian -- charting an almost day-by-day account of the terrible progress of the war's juggernaut of death and destruction. Through it all, his aim is to show what happened, not from the point of view of any one of the warring nations but from a global perspective. The result is the first total history of this global war, a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a gripping dramatic narrative.

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