Fateful choices. Ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780713997125
- ISBN10 0713997125
- Type Book
- Pages 623
- Published 2007
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
Universal History ContemporaryFateful choices. Ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, FATEFUL CHOICES, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. He examines closely eleven episodes at the heart of the War where there was an immense range of options open to planners and decision-makers. From declarations of war down to operational priorities, choices were made that could have resulted in an almost unrecognisably different conflict. Other viewpoints were passionately and articulately argued by powerful, ruthless advocates. In no case was the decision that prevailed to any degree foreordained.