World War II 1939-1945. Set of 2 Books

«World War II: 1939–1942» — the first volume of a fundamental study of the bloodiest conflict of the 20th century by the authoritative British historian Martin Gilbert. Annotation In this book, renowned historian Martin Gilbert, relying on thousands of documents and testimonies, has created a comprehensive chronicle of the most destructive war in human history. With the onset of the war, European conflicts rapidly escalated into a global catastrophe: the invasion of Poland, the fall of Paris, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Battle of Moscow.

The author does not limit himself to describing the movement of armies on the map, showing how Hitler's «blitzkrieg» crushed the fates of millions of people — from soldiers in the trenches to civilians under the bombings of London and Leningrad. What diplomatic miscalculations by European leaders made global conflict inevitable? What price did Great Britain have to pay to stand alone against the full might of the Luftwaffe? Why did the «Barbarossa» plan fail where German command expected an easy victory? This is the story of how the world, step by step, plunged into the chaos of total confrontation.

About the Book

• A sequential chronology of one of the most destructive military conflicts in human history. 

• The first part of the complete history of World War II, covering the time frame from the invasion of Poland to the turning point in the conflict in 1942.

• A reissue of the classic study of the war in a new lightweight format with a soft cover with flaps and «anti-scratch» film, as well as pleasant cream paper for more comfortable long reading.

• Numerous illustrative maps and illustrations.

• Sir Martin Gilbert (1936–2015) — an outstanding British historian, author of monographs on the history of the Holocaust, World War I and World War II, and a three-volume history of the 20th century, the official biographer of Churchill.

The historical book «World War II: 1939–1942» — a large-scale historical canvas of the main catastrophe of the 20th century, the consequences of which we still feel.