Description
This sweeping one-volume history examines the political tensions, ideological forces, and military developments that transformed a regional crisis into a global conflict. Moving across the Western, Eastern, and Pacific theaters, it traces the war’s major campaigns while explaining how strategy, industrial capacity, intelligence, leadership, and national economies shaped its course. Vividly written and grounded in clear military analysis, the book challenges familiar assumptions and places battlefield events within the broader human and technological costs of total war. It offers both an accessible introduction and a thoughtful interpretation of the conflict that reshaped the modern world.
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paperback
Hutchinson
Published Jan 1, 1989
608 pages
ISBN: 0091740118
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First Published
1989
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Second World War by John Keegan.