Fateful Choices, Ian Kershaw
Fateful Choices, Ian Kershaw
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Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

Author: Ian Kershaw

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Unabridged: 27 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/05/2020

Synopsis

The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny. As the author examines the connected stories of these profound choices, he restores a sense of drama and contingency to this pivotal moment, producing one of the freshest, most important books on World War II in years—one with powerful contemporary relevance.

About Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw, author of The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler, is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002 he received his knighthood for Services to History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Historical Society, of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jarrod on October 02, 2017

Kershaw is a master historian and researcher of world war 2 topics. This book explores ten decisions made by world leaders from 1940-41 and their world wide implications, some reaching even to today and not only to WWII. Though there is nothing groundbreaking or new here, the layout is thoroughly do......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on March 13, 2014

Although it gets a bit dense at times, Kershaw clarifies a number of the most confusing questions of the early phases of WWII. He has a knack for showing how objectively irrational decisions were rational within a certain distorted worldview with a set of dubious assumptions. Basically the book expl......more

Goodreads review by প্রীতম on January 07, 2022

Book: Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 Author: Ian Kershaw Publisher: ‎ Penguin Press HC, The (31 May 2007) Language: ‎ English Hardcover: ‎ 656 pages Reading age: ‎ 18 years and up Item Weight: ‎ 1 kg 20 g Dimensions: ‎ 16.1 x 4.9 x 23.52 cm Country of Origin: ‎ USA Price: 1......more

Goodreads review by Joe on April 07, 2022

In “Fateful Choices”, the renowned historian Ian Kershaw sets out to explain the course and eventual outcomes of the Second World War by analysing 10 decisions taken by the leaders of the protagonist powers. A small few of these 10 decisions were prescient (Britain’s resolve to fight on after the fa......more

Goodreads review by Nikola on May 30, 2016

Tačno to što kaže u naslovu - detaljan pregled najbitnijih odluka koje su državnici doneli u prve dve godine rata. Ako si kao ja, interesovaće te i pozadina pre donošenja neke odluke, stanje u kom su se nalazili oni koji su odlučivali, pod kakvim uticajima i pritiscima su bili. Šta je uticalo na odl......more

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