'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable'
M. R. D. Foot, The Times Richard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War
re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage
peace before the outbreak of World War Two. 24 August 1939: The
fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions
to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must
try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West
hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was
convinced the West would back down. And both sides acted knowing
that they risked being plunged into a war that might spell the end
the end of European civilization.
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