The Second World War : a Marxist history / Chris Bambery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bambery, Chris, author.

Series:

Counterfire (Series)

Counterfire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Causes.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

295 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Distribution:

New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press LLC, [2014]

Place of Publication:

London : PlutoPress, 2014.

Summary:

The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill by standing up to dictators. In The Second World War Chris Bambery argues that rather than being a just war, the conflict was primarily about a division of the world between the great powers, while the rising of ordinary people against fascism did not always match with the ambitions of their rulers. He offers a complex and radical analysis, that is unique when comparison to many modern and conventional histories of the war. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Competing Empires at a Time of Economic Crisis 5

2 The Allied Powers 12

3 The Axis Powers 35

4 The Countdown to War 61

5 The Early War 81

6 Russia: The Crucible of Victory 115

7 The End of the Third Reich 141

8 Resistance in Europe 169

9 Asia and the Pacific 193

10 The East is Red 214

11 The Post-War World 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-284) and index.

ISBN:

9780745333021

0745333028

074533301X

9780745333014

OCLC:

870425181