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Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw

Fateful Choices By Ian Kershaw

Fateful Choices by Ian Kershaw


$36.99
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Summary

The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. This book examines closely eleven episodes at the heart of the War where there was an immense range of options open to planners and decision-makers.

Fateful Choices Summary

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw

The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. He examines closely eleven episodes at the heart of the War where there was an immense range of options open to planners and decision-makers. From declarations of war down to operational priorities, choices were made that could have resulted in an almost unrecognisably different conflict. Other viewpoints were passionately and articulately argued by powerful, ruthless advocates. In no case was the decision that prevailed to any degree foreordained. Kershaw, not least through his immense work on the career of Adolf Hitler, has spent many years thinking about the contingent nature of history. Fateful Choices dramatizes brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in disaster or victory - either for the Allies or for the Axis.

Fateful Choices Reviews

a Superb . . . helps to further our understanding of this epic struggleaas well as of the role of contingency in history.a a"The New York Times Book Review" a The central achievement of Ian Kershawas latest book is to make new some bits of history you thought you already had a handle on. . . . Full of surprises.a a"San Francisco Chronicle"

About Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. His books include The Hitler Myth, his two volume Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis and Making Friends with Hitler. He was knighted in 2002.

Additional information

GOR001574375
9780713997125
0713997125
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
2007-06-07
656
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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