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World War Two: A Short History, by Norman Stone
€8.00
Quay Books
After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even more than stability and demanded a massive indemnity from Germany in order to keep it from rearming.
The results, as eminent historian Norman Stone describes in this authoritative history, were disastrous.
In World War Two, Stone provides a remarkably concise account of the deadliest war of human history, showing how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of World War One. Adolf Hitler rode a tide of popular desperation and resentment to power in Germany, bullied Europe into giving him his way, and in so doing backed the victors of the Great War into a corner.
Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany - a decision that, Stone argues, was utterly irrational. Yet Hitler had driven the world mad, and the rekindling of European hostilities soon grew to a conflagration that spread across the globe, fanned by political and racial ideologies more poisonous - and weaponry more destructive - than the world had ever seen.
“Pithy, opinionated, preposterously readable, .... [An] excellent, engaged and engaging primer, which contains everything and misses nothing in its brief span.” - Sunday Express
“[Stone's] history is a gripping introduction to one of the most tragic conflicts ever seen.” - The Telegraph
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