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The second world wars : how the first global conflict was fought and won / Victor Davis Hanson.

by Hanson, Victor Davis.

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Basic Books, 2017.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns.

9780465066988 (hc.)

xxi, 652 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.

World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The author examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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