The World at War Unknown - 1974

London: Fontana Collins , 1974. Mass market paperback, x + 340 pages including maps, plus black-and-white illustrations; creases to back cover, other tiny traces of shelf wear, otherwise appears in unused/unread condition. . First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.

Fontana. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Spine and Front hinge cracked. (History, War, Non-fiction)

First THUS in this Fontana mass-market paperback edition. Pages are clean and unmarked, but a bit age-tanned. Thin black line drawn across top and bottom edges. Minor surface and edge wear, but nothing too bad. Binding is still firm.

Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1974. Remainder Mark; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: "For it is evil things that we shall be fighting against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution. And against these I am certain that the right will prevail." With these words Prime Minster Chamberlain ended his fateful broadcast to the nation on the morning of Sunday, 3 September 1939. Britain was at war with Germany in a struggle that was to become truly global. From Russia to North Africa, from the Pacific to the Atlantic the battles were fought and the terrible casualties inflicted: 20 million Russians, 5-1/2 million Jews, 405,000 Americans, 357,000 British - including 60,000 civilians. In The World at War - now the subject of a major TV series - Mark Arnold-Forster describes the strategies, campaigns and offensives on land, sea and in the air that finally brought the Axis powers to defeat.… Leer más