No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 - Hardcover

Davies, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670018325 ISBN 13: 9780670018321

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2007

Synopsis

A re-examination of World War II and its outcome by the eminent historian author of Europe: A History poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater reader understanding about popular beliefs.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman Davies is the bestselling author of Europe: A History, The Isles: A History, and Rising Â’44. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and professor emeritus at London University.

From AudioFile:

NO SIMPLE VICTORY is no simple book. Rather than chronicle WWII from beginning to end, the author explores hundreds of its skirmishes and principal characters in no seeming order. He throws out the names of battles, generals, and politicians without assignation, as though we know them all from a previous life. With an aristocratic British accent, Simon Vance does his best to turn a dry and confusing narrative into a pleasant experience. He performs well with French and Russian names but occasionally loses the last word of a sentence. After hearing Vance adopt the authors attitude and read his flight of opinions, the listener might mistake the narrator for Davies himself. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670018325
• ISBN 13: 9780670018321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560