Scorched earth : a global history of World War II
Chamberlin, Paul Thomas2025
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A powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers. In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In 'Scorched Earth', historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe.
Main title:
Scorched earth : a global history of World War II / Paul Thomas Chamberlin.
Author:
Chamberlin, Paul Thomas, author
Imprint:
London : Basic Books, 2025.
Collation:
656 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529333848 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.53
LC class:
D743
Local class:
940.53
Language:
English
BRN:
4180399
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