Product Description

Offers an account of the last days of peace in 1939. This title presents the story in the capitals of Europe as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war that they feared might spell the end of European civilisation. It provides a defining moment in the history of the violent twentieth century.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #315882 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-27
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .58 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

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Review
Overy is one of the great historians of the second world war (Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times )

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 (Michael Burleigh Evening Standard )

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 (Ian Thomson Independent )

Even those who think they know it all about how war broke out will learn something from Richard

Overy's book

(Simon Heffer Literary Review )

One of the great historians of this conflict (Simon Garfield Observer )

About the Author
Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of more than twenty books on the era of the two World Wars, including Why the Allies Won, Russia's War and more recently The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, which won the Wolfson Prize in 2005. His latest book, The Morbid Age: Britain between the Wars, was published in 2009.