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 thoughtprovoking 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 decisionmakers. 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.
Fateful Choices - Ten decisions that changed the world
Ian Kershaw
ALLEN LANE
2007
234 páginas
7h 48m
ISBN-13: 9780143113720
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Sir Ian Kershaw
<i>Sir</i> Ian Kershaw é um historiador nascido em 1943 em Oldham, Inglaterra. Foi professor de história contemporânea na Universidade de Sheffield, da qual se aposentou em 2008. Especialista na Alemanha nazista, escreveu importantes obras sobre o assunto e foi consultor histórico de duas consagradas séries da BBC sobre o tema - <i>The Nazis: A Warning from History</i> e <i>War of the Century</i>. A mais importante obra de Kershaw é a monumental biografia em dois volumes <i>Hitler, 1889-1936 Hubris</i> (1998) e <i>Hitler, 1936-1945 Nemesis</i> (2000), pela qual foi várias vezes premiado.
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