No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945Viking, 2007 - 544 من الصفحات One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels in his absorbing new book "No Simple Victory." Far from being a revisionist history, this is instead a clear-eyed reappraisal, offering new insight by reevaluating well-established facts, as well as pointing out lesser-known ones. Davies asks readers to reconsider what they know about World War II, and how the received wisdom might be biased or incorrect. He poses simple questions that have complicated and unexpected answers. For instance, Can you name the five biggest battles of the war in Europe? Or, What were the main political ideologies that were contending for supremacy? The answers to these and other questions?and the implications of those answers?will surprise even those who feel that they are experts on the subject. Norman Davies has established himself as one of the preeminent scholars of World War II history, in the tradition of John Keegan and Antony Beevor. "No Simple Victory" is an invaluable contribution to twentieth century history and an illuminating portrait of a conflict which continues to raise questions and provoke debate today. |
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... NKVD , having shot up to a million people in the Great Terror of the 1930s , cannot be described as squeamish . In ... NKVD executed all the inmates of all their prisons in the western regions.28 The difference between the SS and the ...
... NKVD , having shot up to a million people in the Great Terror of the 1930s , cannot be described as squeamish . In ... NKVD executed all the inmates of all their prisons in the western regions.28 The difference between the SS and the ...
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... NKVD , they became places of intensive terror . Suspects would be brought in not just for questioning but for extended interrogation over weeks and months , when beatings , torture and inhuman humiliations were routine . Summary trials ...
... NKVD , they became places of intensive terror . Suspects would be brought in not just for questioning but for extended interrogation over weeks and months , when beatings , torture and inhuman humiliations were routine . Summary trials ...
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... NKVD . And there were thousands of innocent Europeans who had to face incarceration and ' investigation ' by each of the continent's tormentors in turn . The NKVD were notoriously suspicious of persons who had earl- ier been in contact ...
... NKVD . And there were thousands of innocent Europeans who had to face incarceration and ' investigation ' by each of the continent's tormentors in turn . The NKVD were notoriously suspicious of persons who had earl- ier been in contact ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Two WARFARE Military Action in Europe 19391945 | 73 |
Notes | 491 |
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