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BLOOD AND RUINS - RICHARD OVERY KARTONIERT (TB)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY    'A masterpiece. It puts all
previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David  The Times    A bold new
approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historians   Richard
Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and
its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war'  a violent end to
almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy
Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s  before descending into the largest and
costliest war in human history and the end  after 1945  of all territorial empires.  How war on
a huge scale was fought  supplied  paid for  supported by mass mobilization and morally
justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all  Overy explains the bitter cost for
those involved in fighting  and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these
imperial projects  the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was
for the military  a war to the death over the future of the global order.   Blood and Ruins is
a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War  which will
compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking  original and
challenging  Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.

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