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Blood and Ruins

by Richard Overy · first published 2021

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  • taraharris · Feb 21, 2023 · Recommends

    …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. He won the Pulitzer Prize for this book when it was published in 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931–1945 by Richard Overy. His work is summarized well in this review recently published in The Atlantic: https://archive.is/BZ2OO

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  • hackandthink · Nov 19, 2024 · Recommends

    I think "Blood and Ruins" by Richard Overy is a great piece of work and a good account of the confusing history of the 1930s. Munich was an "alliance" of Great Britain und Germany (and sort of Poland). Then Germany and the…

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