Fateful choices
ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941
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Word Count
155,750 words, Guess
Page Count
623 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23850920M
- ISBN-139780713997125
- ISBN-100713997125
- OCLC Control Number84150976
Classifications
- LCCD743
Description
In a mere nineteen months, from May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that decided the course and outcome of World War II, cost the lives of millions and reshaped the course of human destiny from that point forward. How were these decisions made? What were the options facing these leaders as they saw them? What intelligence, right and wrong, did they have? What was the impact of personality, what that of larger forces? In a work with contemporary relevance, Ian Kershaw tells the connected stories of these ten fateful decisions from the shifting perspectives of the protagonists, and in so doing rescues them from the sense of inevitability that now envelops them and restores to them a feeling of vivid drama and contingency - the feeling that things could have turned out very differently indeed.
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