The Second World War

## A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has
ever known by our foremost military historian.


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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended
there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The
war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and
China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects.
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole
picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the
South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert.

Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's The Second
World War never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians
whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in the most terrible
war in history.