Fateful Choices; Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

Kershaw, Ian

ISBN 10: 1594201234 / ISBN 13: 9781594201233

Published by Penguin Press 978-1-59420-123-3, New York

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[978-1-59420-123-3] 2007, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 624pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge. Book about , Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Theodore Roosevelt & Josef Stalin. Time Period 1940. (World War 2, International Relations, Politics--Europe, World Affairs, World Leaders, World War 2). Seller Inventory # 138328

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Title: Fateful Choices; Ten Decisions That Changed ...

Publisher: Penguin Press 978-1-59420-123-3, New York

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Dramatically recreates a sequence of ten decisions made by six major leaders between May 1940 and December 1941 that reshaped human destiny, from Churchill's war cabinet's choice to continue fighting after the German blitzkrieg defeat of France and Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union to Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. and his subsequent decision to eliminate Jewish citizens.

About the Author:

Ian Kershaw,author of The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler,is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002 he received his knighthood for Services to History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Historical Society, of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn.