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The Second World War : a people's history /

World War II surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experienced till then, and from the psychological traumas of loss, of imprisonment and genocide, and permanent exile from ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bourke, Joanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:World War II surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experienced till then, and from the psychological traumas of loss, of imprisonment and genocide, and permanent exile from home.; In this work, Joanna Bourke examines the events and outcomes in the vast number of places in which the War was fought: throughout Western and Central Europe, on the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union, in the Pacific, in Africa, in Asia. She shows where the strategic decisions came from and how they were implemented, but she also shows, through diary entries and recorded oral history, how ordinary people felt when they witnessed or heard of events, from the declaration of war on the radio to the mass murders carried out by Nazi soldiers in Russian villages.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
ISBN:1423767578
9781423767572
9780192802248
0192802240
1280444509
9781280444500
9786610444502
6610444501