Verfasst von:	Overy, Richard J. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Blood and ruins
Titelzusatz:	the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
Verf.angabe:	Richard Overy
Verlagsort:	Dublin
Verlag:	Penguin Books
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	xxiii, 990 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-0-241-30093-0
Abstract:	A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The TimesA bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historiansRichard 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 descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains 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. This 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 is a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew
URL:	Cover: http://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/4B56696D677C7C39353633313730327C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1
Schlagwörter:	(z)Geschichte 1931-1945    / (s)Zweiter Weltkrieg    / (s)Kolonialismus    / (s)Imperialismus    / (s)Militär
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	NQ 2560
Sach-SW:	20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
	European history
	HISTORY / Military / World War II
	Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
	Moderne Kriegsführung
	Second World War
	Theorie der Kriegsführung und Militärwissenschaft
	War & defence operations
	Zweiter Weltkrieg
Geograph. SW:	Europe
	Welt
Zeit-SW:	1930 bis 1939 n. Chr
	1940 bis 1949 n. Chr
	c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)
K10plus-PPN:	1832721515