Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941, (Paperback)

from dougwood57

Ian Kershaw examines 10 decisions in 1940/41 to consider whether the actors had viable options. Somewhat disappointingly, but rightly, Kershaw concludes that other choices were really not realistic options (with the possible exception of Britain's decision to continue fighting). The Japanese were...

from sozki

"For over two years, between the summer of 1940 and the autumn of 1942, the outcome was far from certain. Both Hitler and the Japanesse Leadership knew that the odds would tell againste them in a long war. So it proved. But it was a close-run thing - closer than is often presumed."

from Brightman

Concise, focusing review of colossal decision on world populations

from dougwood57

Ian Kershaw examines 10 decisions in 1940/41 to consider whether the actors had viable options. Somewhat disappointingly, but rightly, Kershaw concludes that other choices were really not realistic options (with the possible exception of Britain's decision to continue fighting). The Japanese were...

from sozki

"For over two years, between the summer of 1940 and the autumn of 1942, the outcome was far from certain. Both Hitler and the Japanesse Leadership knew that the odds would tell againste them in a long war. So it proved. But it was a close-run thing - closer than is often presumed."