Friday, September 18, 2015

The Meaning of the Second World War [Repost]




The Meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel


English | 3 May 2011 | ISBN: 1844674797, 1844674800 | 212 Pages | PDF | 5 MB




The very scale of the 1939 45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel outlines his view that the war was in fact a combination of several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony.