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Blood and ruins : the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

text Blood and ruins : the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

Overy, R. J.

Summary
"Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion whic... Read more
Contents
Prologue : 'blood and ruins' -- the age of Imperial War -- Nation-empires and global crisis, 1931-40 -- Imperial fantasies, imperial realities, 1940-43 -- The death of the nation-empire, 1942-45 -- Mobilizing a total war -- Fighting the war -- War... Read more
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xxiii, 990 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm
Publisher
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books 2021
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