Publisher's Synopsis
This explanation of why the West won World War 11 uses the argument that the West turned out to be better at fighting, and benefitted more from "total war" than any of its totalitarian adversaries, or its ally, Stalin's Russia.;Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, it is more than just a history of the war. It goes behind the main events to explain the deeper causes of the war, and takes an iconoclastic view of the causes of Western victory. The author explains the cultural, technical, military and psychological reasons for Western dominance of the postwar world, while showing how close-run the race really was. It could have gone the other way.;Richard Overy is also the author of "The Road to War", 'The Air War" and "Goering: The Iron Man".
