Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 - Rilegato

Kershaw, Ian

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ISBN 10: 1594201234 ISBN 13: 9781594201233

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2007

Riassunto

Dramatically recreates a sequence of ten decisions made by six major leaders between May 1940 and December 1941 that reshaped human destiny, from Churchill's war cabinet's choice to continue fighting after the German blitzkrieg defeat of France and Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union to Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. and his subsequent decision to eliminate Jewish citizens.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ian Kershaw studied at Liverpool and Oxford universities. He has taught at the University of Manchester, at the Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, at the University of Nottingham, and since 1989 has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author, most recently, of Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and the definitive two-volume biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis. The first volume was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, and the second volume won the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the inaugural British Academy Book Prize.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1594201234
• ISBN 13: 9781594201233
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 624
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