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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxvi, 562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
A history of the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II questions the morality of British and American attacks on occupied European cities while offering insight into the course of the civilian front line of the Allied air war as it was shaped by political strategies.
11) Why war?
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was "a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war." Published the next year as a pamphlet entitled...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 492 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A team of leading historians reassesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the view-point of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation,...
