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World War Two : a short history / Norman Stone.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2012.Description: xxvi, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780465013722
Other title:
  • World War 2
  • World War II
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Books PHILIPPINE HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS MAKILING Biography 900-999 History, Biography, and Geography BIO 940.53 Sto6 2012 / BIO 940.53 Sto6 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10200

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.

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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