Blood and ruins : the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 / Richard Overy.
Blood and ruins : the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 / Richard Overy.
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London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.
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G 2021/1891
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxiii, 990 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue : 'blood and ruins' - the age of Imperial War -- Nation-empires and global crisis, 1931-40 -- Imperial fantasies, imperial realities, 1940-43 -- The death of the nation-empire, 1942-45 -- Mobilizing a total war -- Fighting the war -- War economies : economies at war -- Just wars? Unjust war...
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Publisher
London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"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 de...
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Blood and ruins : the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 / Richard Overy.
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Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2021/1891
Record Identifier
74VKaLD3PaeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaLD3PaeX
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ISBN
0713995629
9780713995626
DDC
940.53
MMS ID
991024425918702626
