The Second World War /
By: Beevor, Antony
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Phoenix 2013.Description: ix, 863 p. : ill., maps ; 23cm.ISBN: 9780753828243; 0316023744Other title: 2nd World War | World War II | World War 2 | World War Two.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 | World War, 1939-1945DDC classification: 940.54Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 940.54 BE SE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0049657 |
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Maps on endpapers.
Presents the history of World War II, covering every battle and theater, the causes and outcomes, and the countries and main players.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War. Moral choice forms the basis of all human drama, and no other period in history has presented greater dilemmas both for leaders and ordinary people, nor offered such examples of tragedy, the corruption of power politics, ideological hypocrisy, betrayal, perversity, self-sacrifice, unbelievable sadism and unpredictable kindness. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.