
Richard Overy On His Timely New History Of Imperialism And WWII
Federalist Radio Hour
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World War II - A Global History
The book is a global history, and i made a big effort to include the war in asia. It often gets a kind of sidelined in most general histories of the sycamor war. I trace eally the last, fil the dying moments of the imperial order from the early 19 thirties onwards. And it really comes to an end in the early 19 sixties, when the colonial empires are finally wound up.
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