World War Two an essential history

In this book, Weinberg offers a masterful overview of the conflict, starting from its causes –the rise of Hitler, the Czechoslovakian crisis, Japan's war plans…–, following step by step the evolution of the battles, illustrating them with an excellent series of maps, and analyzing, at the same time, the impact the war had on the daily lives of the civilian population. This is, in short, an essential history in which one of the greatest experts on the subject makes fundamental knowledge available to us to understand what the greatest war in history meant, causing sixty million deaths, mostly among the civilian population.

In this book, Weinberg offers a masterful overview of the conflict, starting from its causes –the rise of Hitler, the Czechoslovakian crisis, Japan's war plans…–, following step by step the evolution of the battles, illustrating them with an excellent series of maps, and analyzing, at the same time, the impact the war had on the daily lives of the civilian population. This is, in short, an essential history in which one of the greatest experts on the subject makes fundamental knowledge available to us to understand what the greatest war in history meant, causing sixty million deaths, mostly among the civilian population.