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

Ian Kershaw

thg 4 2013 · Penguin UK

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In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge.

The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.

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Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. His books include The Hitler Myth, his two volume Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis and Making Friends with Hitler. He was knighted in 2002.