Ричард Овери

Адольф Гитлер и Иосиф Сталин. Два правителя-диктатора, стоявших у власти двух столь разных государств. Ими восхищались и их ненавидели, каждого по-своему. Эпоха правления каждого из них - как бы ее ни оценивали - сыграла определяющую роль в дальнейшем развитии Германии и СССР. Что это были за личности? Какими были методы их правления? В чем мораль диктатуры как таковой и к чему она ведет? ...

Historians are in general agreement that the Russian war effort to defeat the invading Axis powers was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory and ending World War II. Now with exclusive access to previously unavailable information from the former KGB, GRU, and Presidential archives, and with the full cooperation of Russian officials and historians, Richard Overy tackles the many persis...

The book explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. The war has usually been seen simply as Hitler’s war and yet the wider conflict that broke out when Germany invaded Poland was not the war that Hitler wanted. He had hoped for a short war against Poland; instead, Britain and France declared...

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently ...