Overy argues that "nothing in history is inevitable" -- not even the outbreak of World War II. This concise, clearheaded text seeks to prove the point by describing 11 days in 1939, from August 24, ...
You will have a tough time reading Richard Overy's succinct and lucid account of the build-up to the Second World War without thinking of Basil Fawlty. Not that this is in any way a quirky account, or ...