Fateful choices ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941

The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world?s six major powers made a series of...

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Main Author: Kershaw, Ian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Penguin Press 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • London, Spring 1940: Great Britain Decides to Fight on
  • Berlin, Summer and Autumn 1940: Hitler Decides to Attack the Soviet Union
  • Tokyo, Summer and Autumn 1940: Japan Decides to Seize the 'Golden Opportunity'
  • Rome, Summer and Autumn 1940: Mussolini Decides to Grab His Share
  • Washington, DC, Summer 1940-Spring 1941: Roosevelt Decides to lend a Hand
  • Moscow, Spring-Summer 1941: Stalin Decides He Knows Best
  • Washington, DC, Summer-Autumn 1941: Roosevelt Decides to Wage Undeclared War
  • Tokyo, Autumn 1941: Japan Decides to Go to War
  • Berlin, Autumn 1941: Hitler Decides to Declare War on the United States
  • Berlin/East Prussia, Summer-Autumn 1941: Hitler Decides to Kill the Jews