Cover image for The Second World War / Antony Beevor.
TITLE:
The Second World War / Antony Beevor.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Co.,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xii, 863 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316023740
General Note:
Maps on lining papers.