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1939 Countdown to War
by Overy Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670022098
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022090
- Seller
-
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 2010. Black hardcover with silver lettering on spine, 159 pages, stated first edition but it is also a book club edition, fine with fine dust jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." -- Evening Standard (London) A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates the jockeying for advantage that set Europe's greatest powers on a collision course. Would Stalin join Hitler in a bid to divide Poland and flout the West? Would Britain and France succeed in forcing Germany to reason? And how far would a defiant Poland push its claim to exist? In the summer of 1939, the course of events was anything but assured, as this exceptionally absorbing book drives home.
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Details
- Seller
- DJ Ernst-Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002823
- Title
- 1939 Countdown to War
- Author
- Overy Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- ISBN 10
- 0670022098
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022090
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- World War Two, World War II, Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Military;
Terms of Sale
DJ Ernst-Books
All items carefully described. All items returnable for refund within reasonable time after receipt. I try to eliminate returns by accurate and extensive description.
About the Seller
DJ Ernst-Books
Biblio member since 2006
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
About DJ Ernst-Books
A small clean well-lighted store established in 1975 in Selinsgrove Pennsylvania, DJ Ernst-Books offers a diverse interesting stock of out-of-print, used, and antiquarian books. There is limited space and therefore quality is stressed over quantity. I treat each customer as an important person. My book shop is open 6 days a week, and is located in the scenic Susquehanna River Valley. Susquehanna University, with their expanding writing program, is located in Selinsgrove. Thus, several of my customers are writers or aspiring writers.
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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