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The Second World War

A Complete History

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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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Holt Paperbacks
Language
English
Pages
928

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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
in English
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Second World War
1989, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
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The Second World War: a complete history
1989, H. Holt
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First Sentence

"The Second World War was among the most destructive conflicts in human history; more than forty-six million soldiers and civilians perished, many in circumstances of prolonged and horrifying cruelty."

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
928
Dimensions
9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Weight
2.2 pounds

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OL7933042M
Internet Archive
secondworldwarco00gilb
ISBN 10
0805076239
ISBN 13
9780805076233
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13965
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8910

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