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 related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny. As the author examines the connected stories of these profound choices, he restores a sense of drama and contingency to this pivotal moment, producing one of the freshest, most important books on World War II in years' one with powerful contemporary relevance.

Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.49w x 1.51d
ISBN13: 9780143113720
ISBN10: 0143113720
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General

About the Author
Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back, The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler, is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002, he received his knighthood for services to history. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany.