Fateful Choices

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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 ...

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

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Overview

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.

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Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review
Superb . . . helps to further our understanding of this epic struggle—as well as of the role of contingency in history.
San Francisco Chronicle
The central achievement of Ian Kershaw's latest book is to make new some bits of history you thought you already had a handle on. . . . Full of surprises.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143113720
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/27/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 656
  • Sales rank: 624,829
  • Product dimensions: 8.34 (w) x 5.36 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Ian Kershaw is professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. He is the author, most recently, of Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and the two-volume biography Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis. The first volume was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, while the second volume won the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the inaugural British Academy Prize.
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Table of Contents


List of Illustrations     vii
List of Maps     ix
Acknowledgements     xv
Dramatis Personae     xviii
Forethoughts     3
London, Spring 1940: Great Britain Decides to Fight On     11
Berlin, Summer and Autumn 1940: Hitler Decides to Attack the Soviet Union     54
Tokyo, Summer and Autumn 1940: Japan Decides to Seize the 'Golden Opportunity'     91
Rome, Summer and Autumn 1940: Mussolini Decides to Grab His Share     129
Washington, DC, Summer 1940-Spring 1941: Roosevelt Decides to Lend a Hand     184
Moscow, Spring-Summer 1941: Stalin Decides He Knows Best     243
Washington, DC, Summer-Autumn 1941: Roosevelt Decides to Wage Undeclared War     298
Tokyo, Autumn 1941: Japan Decides to Go to War     331
Berlin, Autumn 1941: Hitler Decides to Declare War on the United States     382
Berlin/East Prussia, Summer-Autumn 1941: Hitler Decides to Kill the Jews     431
Afterthoughts     471
Notes     484
List of Works Cited     576
Index     597
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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 23, 2009

    Great book

    Very interesting look at key (but often hidden) decisions that shaped WWII. Pleasant to read, and very informative.

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