Richard Overy

Gebundenes Buch

Rain of Ruin

Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan

Beschreibung

Praise for Richard Overy Blood and Ruins "[A] stupendous achievement...Blood and Ruins dissects the sinews of war with the sharpest of scalpels...It is history at its best, down to the finest points." - Josef Joffe, New York Times Book Review "Blood and Ruins is a monumental work...Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire." - Michael F. Bishop, Wall Street Journal "The Pacific clash over colonies reveals a greater truth about the Second World War...[Blood and Ruins] refuses to treat the Pacific as 'an appendix,' as histories often do. Rather, it sees World War II as a truly 'global event.'" - Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic The Dictators "Gripping...astonishing...superb. [Overy's] skills lie in the fluent telling of a complex story, in the sharp flash of insight, in his patient commitment to the rational explanation of events that sometimes seem to defy all reason." - Jane Caplan, Times Literary Supplement Why the Allies Won "Clear-sighted...learned, and multifaceted." - Richard Bernstein, New York Times "Broad and insightful." - Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs "A masterpiece of analytical history." - Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times (London)

Autor

Richard Overy is the author of outstanding histories of World War II, including Why the Allies Won and the best-selling Blood and Ruins. His study of Hitler and Stalin, The Dictators, won the Wolfson History Prize. He lives in Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 146mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781324105305
• ISBN-10: 1324105305
• Artikelnr.: 70743734

Rezensionen

A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin. Philip Snow Literary Review