1939

Alternate Titles

• Nineteen thirty nine

Description

A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history’s greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates the jockeying for advantage that set Europe’s greatest powers on a collision course. Would Stalin join Hitler in a bid to divide Poland and flout the West? Would Britain and France succeed in forcing Germany to reason? And how far would a defiant Poland push its claim to exist? In the summer of 1939, the course of events was anything but assured, as this exceptionally absorbing book drives home. (Source: [The National WWII Museum](https://store.nationalww2museum.org/1939-countdown-to-war-pb/))

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Other Editions

• 1939: countdown to warPenguin2010-01-01
• 1939HardcoverHistoriska media2009-01-01
• 1939Penguin Books, Limited2009-01-01
• Die letzten zehn TagePaperbackPantheon Verlag2009-07-20
• 1939eBookPenguin Group UK2010-01-01
• 1939Viking2010-01-01