Richard Overy
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
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Blood and Ruins is a new book by Richard Overy that reevaluates the Second World War and its origins and aftermath, arguing that it was the great imperial war, a violent end to a century of global imperial expansion. It explains how the war was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization, and morally justified, and the bitter cost for those involved. It is a thought-provoking, original, and challenging book that seeks to understand the war anew.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 1040 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY
SHORTLISTED 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 Times
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historians.
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 that 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 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.
Weight: 712g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 47 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241300930
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