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Book

1939 : countdown to war

Author

R J Overy

Call Number

  • 940.5311 O968 (OSH)

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Edition

1st American ed.

Publication Information

New York : Viking, 2010.

Physical Description

xi, 158 p ; 20 cm.

Summary

In this dramatic account of the final days before the outbreak of World War II, historian Richard Overy vividly chronicles the unraveling of peace, hour by grim hour, as politicians and ordinary citizens brace themselves for a war that could spell the end of European civilization.

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