24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. If they don't, world war will result. In this dramatic account Richard Overy re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace i...

- 4 août 1939 : le destin du monde se joue. Hitler conçoit le projet d'envahir la Pologne et espère le soutien de Staline. Les puissances de l'Ouest doivent l'en empêcher. Si elles ne le font pas, c'est la guerre.Voici le récit, bref et percutant, des derniers jours de paix de 1939, alors que les po...

Des milliers de bombes furent déversées sur l'Europe pendant la guerre faisant plus de 600 000 morts et un million de blessés. En France, où l'on dénombre le plus fort tonnage de bombes larguées, succèdent aux raids de la Luftwaffe, les bombardements alliés soumis à une technologie encore imprécise....

Le Troisième Reich est le nom qu'Hitler et le parti nazi donnèrent à cette dictature qui vit le jour en 1933 et se termina, douze ans plus tard, par la destruction totale de l'Allemagne et le suicide d'Hitler. Symbolisé par le personnage emblématique et messianique du Führer, le Troisième Reich fut...

The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides answers to important questions: ...

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@00000400@Richard Overy sets out in @00000373@Blood and Ruins@00000155@ to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'last imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the...

Cette première partie de l'ensemble consacré aux années 1939-1943 de la Seconde Guerre mondiale étudie d'abord la période où les puissances de l'Axe règnent en maîtres. En un peu plus de deux années, l'Allemagne, l'Italie et le Japon soumettent la plus grande partie du continent européen, s'enfonce...

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The Allied victory in 1945 - though comprehensive - was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire resource of continental Europe were in German hands and Japan had wiped out the western colonial presence in Asia. Democracy appeared to have had its day. In this remarkable study, Richard Overy pr...

"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --Evening Standard (London) 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 d...

British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The combination of a liberal, uncensored society and a large educated audience for new ideas made Britain a laboratory for novel ways to understand the world. The Morbid Age opens a window onto this creative but anxious era,...

No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ... In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ... Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of...

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived m...

The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifical...

RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and shaped European history for t...

A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A per...

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From global wars to the digital revolution, this title lets you explore the world-changing events of the 20th century. It presents the history, the events, the people and the political and cultural milestones that have shaped our world using a fresh approach. ...

'A world-class scholar at the height of his powers . everything is deftly handled - from the German-Soviet pact to the Yalta Conference, from Babi-Yar to the Katyn massacre - without holding up the sweeping narrative' Orlando Figes, The Times In the course of human history there has probably been no...

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Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. ...