Вторая мировая война: краткая история
Норман Стоун
жанр : История
Предметы: История, Европа, Общее Проблема: 07/01/2013 Редактор: Первое издание Издателя: Основные книги Формат: Переплет Страниц: 272 Язык: En Размеры: 8,30 x 5,60 x 1,10 дюйма ISBN-10 : 9780465013722 Asin: 0465013724
After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even more than stability and demanded a massive indemnity from Germany in order to keep it from rearming. The results, as eminent historian Norman Stone describes in this authoritative history, were disastrous.
In "World War Two", Stone provides a remarkably concise account of the deadliest war of human history, showing how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of World War One. Adolf Hitler rode a tide of popular desperation and resentment to power in Germany, promptly making good on his promise to return the nation to its former economic and military strength. He bullied Europe into giving him his way, and in so doing backed the victors of the Great War into a corner. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany—a decision that, Stone argues, was utterly irrational. Yet Hitler had driven the world mad, and the rekindling of European hostilities soon grew to a conflagration that spread across the globe, fanned by political and racial ideologies more poisonous—and weaponry more destructive—than the world had ever seen. With commanding expertise, Stone leads readers through the escalation, climax, and mournful denouement of this sprawling conflict.
"World War Two" is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the twentieth century and its defining struggle.
Об авторе
Норман Стоун преподавал в университетах Кембриджа, Оксфорда и Билькента, где в настоящее время является директором Турецко-русского центра. Стоун является автором Первая мировая война, Восточный фронт, 1914-1917 (лауреат премии Вольфсона), и Европа трансформирована.
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