The Second World War Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Pages: 736 Language: English Publisher: Phoenix The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China.The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China. and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects.Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research. Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific. from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. to the Burmese jungle. Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.Moral choice forms the basis of all human drama . and no other period in history has presented greater dilemmas both for leaders and ordinary peopl...Read More