Description: "Packed with drama, both military and political.... It will surely prove definitive." --Lewis Jones, Daily Telegraph
Brief description: Richard Overy is the author of many outstanding histories of World War II, including Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan. His study of Hitler and Stalin, The Dictators, won the Wolfson History Prize. He lives in England and Italy.
Review Quotes: Important.--Paul Kennedy "Wall Street Journal"