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 an

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One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating

From military maneuvers to mass murder, history's most lethal conflict is thoroughly explained including the actions of the instigator, Adolf Hitler.

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