Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders - Hardcover

Weinberg, Gerhard L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521852544 ISBN 13: 9780521852548

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Visions of Victory explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had emerged victorious. While the leaders primarily focused their attention on the strategy for fighting and winning the war, these very decisions were often shaped by their aspirations and hopes for the future. Weinberg assesses how subsequent events were impacted by these decisions and examines how these visions for the future changed and evolved throughout the war.

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Book Description:

Visions of Victory explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had emerged victorious.

About the Author:

Gerhard L. Weinberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the origins and course of World War II, including A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University Press, 1994), which won the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, and Germany, Hitler, and World War II (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521852544
• ISBN 13: 9780521852548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320