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Blood and Ruins - The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 (Paperback)
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Blood and Ruins - The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 (Paperback)
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List price R565
Loot Price R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL
FOR MILITARY HISTORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR
MILITARY HISTORY 'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume
works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times A bold
new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost
military historians 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 which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany
and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the
largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945,
of all territorial empires. How war on a huge scale was fought,
supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally
justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy
explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the
exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial
projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for
civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the
future of the global order. Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from
of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War,
which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways.
Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets
out to understand the war anew.
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