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  • Russia's War

    A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

    by Richard Overy ...
    **"A penetrating and compassionate book on the most gigantic military struggle in world history."--The New York Times Book Review"An extraordinary tale... Overy's engrossing book provides extensive details of the slaughter, brutality, bitterness and destruction on the massive front from the White Sea to the flank of Asia."--Chicago Tribune**The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Air War, 1939-1945

    by Richard J. Overy ...
    The Air War, 1939-1945 was first written in the late 1970s when there was very little academic interest in the history of air power. What there was focused largely on combat. The book was intended to provide a global history of the air war by looking at combat, but also the broader context of technology, production, intelligence and leadership. The book sought to address the question of why the ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Blood and Ruins

    The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

    by Richard Overy ...
    **“Monumental… [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire.” – The Wall Street JournalA thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain’s leading military historianA New York Times bestseller**Richard ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Bombers and the Bombed

    Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

    by Richard Overy ...
    The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied Europe, destroying its cities. The grisly consequences call into question how “moral” a war the Allies ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • 1939

    Countdown to War

    by Richard Overy ...
    "Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --Evening Standard (London)A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rain of Ruin

    Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

    by Richard Overy ...
    **A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025**'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.' - Philip Snow, Literary ReviewIn ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why War?

    by Richard Overy ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily TelegraphWhy has warfare always been part of the human story?From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future?There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Third Reich

    A Chronicle

    by Richard Overy ...
    Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of Adolf Hitler, the twelve years of the Third Reich were one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the Nazi Party rose to a position of absolute power in Germany, bringing with it the militarization of society, the apparatus of state terror and vicious discrimination against political opponents, the gypsies, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Ace of the Black Cross

    The Memoirs of Ernst Udet

    by Ernst Udet ...
    Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamor, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a medieval, knightly tournament. This was the battle in the air between the first primitive aircraft and the intrepid aviators who flew them. This image of air war is brought nobly to light in the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1939

    Countdown to War

    by Richard Overy ...
    'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace before the outbreak of World War Two.24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Times History of the World

    by Richard Overy ...
    Discover the scope of the world’s history* With exclusive article by Richard Overy *Beginning with the story of early man, and culminating in the rise of global terrorism and environmental issues, the text is a breathtaking and unrivalled narrative which includes voyages of discovery, revolutions and wars, dynasties and empires.Richard Overy, with a team of historians, presents a factual ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Battle of Britain

    Myth and Reality

    by Richard Overy ...
    The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides answers to important questions: how close did Britain really come to invasion? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD