num_pages: 544
description: The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied Powers prevailed and the Nazi regime was defeated. But as in so many things, the truth is somewhat different. Bringing a fresh eye to bear on a story we think we know, Norman Davies. Davies forces us to look again at those six years and to discard the usual narrative of Allied good versus Nazi evil, reminding us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters - Hitler "and "Stalin - whose fight for supremacy consumed the best people in Germany and in the USSR . The outcome of the war was at best ambiguous, the victory of the West was only partial, its moral reputation severely tarnished and, for the greater part of the continent of Europe, 'liberation' was only the beginning of more than fifty years of totalitarian oppression.
language: English
title: Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory
titlecomplete: Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory
characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Chirac, Norman Finkelstein, George W. Bush
genres: Military History, History, World War II, European History, Historical, War, Russia, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1317
publisher: Pan Books Ltd