TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stone,Norman
TI  - World War Two: a short history 
SN  - 9780465013722
U1  - 940.53 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-213) and index; Between the wars -- Germany ascendant -- Barbarossa -- Pearl Harbor and North Africa -- The Russian turn-around -- Fanaticism and hate, muddle and delay -- Nazism and communism -- West and East -- The end
N2  - Stone--one of the greatest living historians of the 20th century--provides an unprecedentedly concise, utterly authoritative account of the deadliest war of human history. Over 60 million people perished in World War Two, and the story of how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of the Great War is shocking, tragic, and also completely preventable in hindsight
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