By Martin Gilbert
Publish yr note: First released by means of Weidenfeld in 1989
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It started with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. by the point it got here to an finish on V-J Day --August 14, 1945 -- it had concerned each significant energy and turn into international in its succeed in. within the ultimate accounting, it is going to grow to be, in either human phrases and fabric assets, the most expensive struggle in historical past, taking the lives of 40 million people.
With extraordinary scholarship and breadth of imaginative and prescient, Gilbert weaves jointly all the war's features -- the political, the army, the diplomatic, and, now not least, the civilian -- charting a nearly daily account of the negative development of the war's juggernaut of demise and destruction. via all of it, his target is to teach what occurred, now not from the viewpoint of anyone of the warring countries yet from a world standpoint. the result's the 1st overall background of this worldwide struggle, a piece that's either a treasure trove of data and a gripping dramatic narrative.
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