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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and WonA definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate

A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian.
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya.

The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory.

An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.


Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 10/17/2017
ISBN: 9780465066988
Pages: 720
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 2.30d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2017 pg. 107
Publishers Weekly 08/28/2017
Library Journal 10/01/2017 pg. 85
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