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Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II by Paul Thomas Chamberlin: New
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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Publication Date
- 2025-05-06
- Pages
- 656
- ISBN
- 9781541619265
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
1541619269
ISBN-13
9781541619265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16071309192
Product Key Features
Book Title
Scorched Earth : a Global History of World War II
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, World
Publication Year
2025
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
33.2 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-035650
Reviews
"A well written, balanced, and provocative account of the twentieth century's greatest and most destructive war. Paul Thomas Chamberlin covers all the major theaters of the war, smoothly integrating political and military developments. The author's unorthodox interpretation of the Second World War will challenge historians to reexamine long-standing assumptions and beliefs about the origins and nature of this critical conflict."-- Ronald H. Spector, author of Eagle Against the Sun, "If doubts remain that World War II was the most devastating conflict in human history, Scorched Earth dispels them. Even more, Paul Thomas Chamberlin challenges the basic notion of a struggle between good and evil. There is little good here except that this war of annihilation finally ended after taking its tremendous toll. And while historians have long identified World War II as a seminal influence on our contemporary era, none have effectively argued that colonialism in its varied versions was its ultimate legacy--until now. In previous work, Chamberlin contested Cold War realism; likewise, here he upends common assumptions about the Good War. He demythologizes in a way that eloquently covers this epic conflict in all its details--experts and war buffs will find a lot of battle descriptions that are fresh here--while provoking us to rethink our understanding of history itself. Truly a tour de force!"-- Thomas W. Zeiler, author of Annihilation: a Global Military History of World War II
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
940.53
Synopsis
An unsparing, "sweeping," and "vivid" (Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering ) new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth , historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe. The war was sparked by German and Japanese invasions that threatened the old powers' dominance, not by Allied opposition to fascism. The Allies achieved victory not through pluck and democratic idealism but through savage firebombing raids on civilian targets and the slaughter of millions of Soviet soldiers. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as hyper-militarized new imperial powers, each laying claim to former Axis holdings across the globe before turning on one another and triggering a new forever war. Dramatically rendered and persuasively argued, Scorched Earth shows that World War II marked the culmination of centuries of colonial violence and ushered in a new era of imperial struggle.
LC Classification Number
D743.C426 2025
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