Delivered From Evil
The Saga of World War II
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Word Count
249,500 words, Guess
Page Count
998 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL20944536M
- ISBN-100060158123
- OCLC Control Number15365134
- OCLC Control NumberDeliveredFromEvilTheSagaOfWWII
- Library of Congress Control Number86046305
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- LibraryThing322347
- Goodreads1315334
Classifications
- DDC940.53
- LCCD743
Description
A Herculean undertaking: a complete history of WW II, from Versailles to Tokyo Bay; and Leckie, author of Warfare (1970) and 27 other books, pulls it off with intelligence and style. He offers little that's dramatically new in this monumental (900 pp. +) effort, but Leckie succeeds as few before him in bringing to vivid life the military, economic, social, and political woof and web of the war. For example, he opens: ""At eleven o'clock in the morning of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1918 the guns of the Great War began to fall silent. At dusk, a sickle moon rose. . ."" And thus he continues, limning with a novelist's close focus both the historical sweep and human-interest particulars of WW II: (""Wagner turned to Hitler and said, 'Mein Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, are you willing to take Eva Braun as your wife?' 'I do,' Hitler replied in a sonorous voice."") A noteworthy achievement.
Description
This political and military history of World War II traces the global conflict from its origins in the 1920s and 1930s to Japan's final surrender in 1945.
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