Военная история / Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days that Decided World War II

Издательство: Da Capo
Автор: David Downing
Название: Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days that Decided World War II
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2009
Количество страниц: 401
ISBN: 978-0-306-81620-8
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2 мб

It's probably misleading to say that World War II was decided in the 22 days between November 17 and December 8, 1941, but a lot went on in that time. The British turned back Rommel, the Russians turned back the Wehrmacht within sight of Moscow, and, finally, Yamamoto initiated his desperate gamble to knock out the U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor and take control of the Pacific. Entwining the various stories gives a sense of the vastness of the theater but loses narrative coherence. For dedicated World War II afficionados.