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Second World War

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Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, here offers a complete history of World War II.

It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day --August 14, 1945 -- it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war in history, taking the lives of forty million people.

With unparalleled scholarship and breadth of vision, Gilbert weaves together all of the war's aspects -- the political, the military, the diplomatic, and, not least, the civilian -- charting an almost day-by-day account of the terrible progress of the war's juggernaut of death and destruction. Through it all, his aim is to show what happened, not from the point of view of any one of the warring nations but from a global perspective. The result is the first total history of this global war, a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a gripping dramatic narrative.

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Publisher
Stoddart
Language
English
Pages
846

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The Second World War: A Complete History
June 1, 2004, Holt Paperbacks
Paperback in English - Revised edition
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Second World War
1995, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
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Second World War
1989, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: Second World War
Second World War
1989, Stoddart
in English
Cover of: The Second World War
The Second World War: a complete history
1989, H. Holt
in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 749-764.

Trinity College Churchill Collection copy: Author's inscribed presentation copy to Douglas J. McLeod; gift of Douglas J. McLeod, 1989.

Churchill Collection, Trinity College.

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Toronto, Ont

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Pagination
xix, 846 p., [64] p. of plates ;
Number of pages
846

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Open Library
OL21478093M
ISBN 10
0773723323
OCLC/WorldCat
19847943

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