{"product_id":"1939-isbn-9780143120063","title":"1939","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent  into...death and destruction.\" --\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak  of history's greatest conflagration, \u003ci\u003e1939\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Overy is one of the great historians of the second world war.\"-- \u003cb\u003eBryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This country's most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element\" -\u003cb\u003e- Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nail-biting ... with rare narrative verve, he documents the ultimatums, emissaries, letters and increasingly desperate proposals that shuttled across Europe in the countdown to war.\"\"-\u003cb\u003e- Ian Thomson Independent (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even those who think they know it all about how war broke out will learn something from Richard Overy's book\"-\u003cb\u003e- Simon Heffer, Literary Review (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the great historians of this conflict\" -- \u003cb\u003eSimon Garfield, Observer (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Overy\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and one of Britain's most distinguished historians and an internationally renowned scholar of World War II. He is the recipient of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His many works include \u003ci\u003eBlood and Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eThe Bombing War, Dictators\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302664392933,"sku":"NP9780143120063","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143120063.jpg?v=1767720190","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/1939-isbn-9780143120063","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}