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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

Victor Davis Hanson
4.47/5 (1170 ratings)
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A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian

World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya.

The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory.

An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
652 pages
Publication:
2017
Publisher:
Basic Books
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
ISBN10:
0465066984
ISBN13:
9780465066988
kindle Asin:
B01N808V2J

The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

Victor Davis Hanson
4.47/5 (1170 ratings)
Read Download
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian

World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya.

The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory.

An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
652 pages
Publication:
2017
Publisher:
Basic Books
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
ISBN10:
0465066984
ISBN13:
9780465066988
kindle Asin:
B01N808V2J

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