Blood and Ruins The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historian
Richard Overy sets out inBlood and Ruinsto recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain's most decorated and respected World War II historians, he argues that this was the "last imperial war," with almost a century-long lead-up of global imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the territorial ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all...