The Second World War /
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War 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 Bur...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2012]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War 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, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War. |
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| Item Description: | Maps on lining papers. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 863 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780316023740 (hbk.) 0316023744 (hbk.) |