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BLOOD AND RUINS - RICHARD OVERY GEBUNDEN

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYWINNER
OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN
PRIZE 'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade'
Saul David  The Times 'This book is Richard Overy's magnum opus ... It would be difficult to
overstate the brilliance with which argument and insight are interwoven in a fast-paced
narrative' John Darwin  Times Literary Supplement 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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