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NOVEMBER 1942 - PETER ENGLUND KARTONIERT (TB)

**A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR An intimate
history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived
through it  completely based on their diaries  letters and memoirs. At the beginning of
November 1942  it looked as if the Axis powers could win the war  at the end of that month  it
was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose. In between came el-Alamein 
Guadalcanal  the French North Africa landings  the Japanese retreat in New Guinea  and the
Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. In this innovatively kaleidoscopic
and riveting historical marvel  Peter Englund reduces these epoch-making events to their basic
component: the individual experience. In thirty memorable days we meet characters including a
Soviet infantryman at Stalingrad  an Italian truck driver in the North African desert  a
partisan in the Belarussian forests  a machine gunner in a British bomber  a twelve-year-old
girl in Shanghai  a university student in Paris  a housewife on Long Island  a prisoner in
Treblinka  Albert Camus  Vasily Grossman  and Vera Brittain. We also witness the launch of SS
James Oglethorpe  the fate of U-604  a German submarine  the building of the first nuclear
reactor  and the making of Casablanca. Not since Englund's own The Beauty and the Sorrow has a
book given us one of the most dramatic periods of human history in all its immensity and
emotional range. 'Thought-provoking' SUNDAY TIMES'Thoroughly worth reading' TELEGRAPH

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