Blood and ruins : the great imperial War, 1931-1945
Overy, R. J.2023
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Richard Overy sets out to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order.
Main title:
Blood and ruins : the great imperial War, 1931-1945 / Richard Overy.
Author:
Overy, R. J., author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
xxvii, 990 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241300930 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2254675