Overy, Richard
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241300930
- author:
- Overy, Richard
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Pages:
- 1040
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- History, Military History, World War II,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
A new perspective on the Second World War is offered by Richard Overy in Blood and Ruins. This book recasts the way we view the conflict, its origins, and its aftermath, arguing that it was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion. Overy explores how war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, and supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms. At the heart of this new account is an examination of the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war, and its aftermath. The war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order. Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew, offering a thought-provoking and original analysis.
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