A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the
outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes
readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that
determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian
of the period, masterfully recreates the jockeying for advantage
that set Europe's greatest powers on a collision course. Would
Stalin join Hitler in a bid to divide Poland and flout the West?
Would Britain and France succeed in forcing Germany to reason? And
how far would a defiant Poland push its claim to exist? In the
summer of 1939, the course of events was anything but assured, as
this exceptionally absorbing book drives home.
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