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The generally accepted narrative of World War II is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied powers were victorious, and the Nazi regime was defeated. But the truth is somewhat different…
The heroic struggle of the Allies and the undisputed victory over Nazism is the familiar picture of World War II, which is transmitted to us by most historians, researchers, countless films and memoirs, monuments and museums around the world. But what if everything was not quite so? This puzzle, which has shaped our understanding of war for almost a century, was decided to unravel by professor and bestselling author of “Europe: A History” Norman Davies.
The author reviews the history of the greatest conflict of the 20th century, focusing on the main actors of the European theater of military operations – the Third Reich, the USSR, the USA and the British Empire – and analyzes how the clash of ideologies, technologies, economics and morale shaped the course of the war. He boldly raises the hushed themes – brutal Soviet repression, contradictory Allied policies, the forgotten role of the countries that suffered the most losses – Poland, Greece and Ukraine. And despite the fact that the Allies themselves resorted to terror, bombing the civilian population, Davies’s sharpest criticism is directed at the Soviet Union, whose war crimes against British soldiers and their own people prove that communism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin.
“The War in Europe” is a call to reconsider the “frozen perspective of history of the victors” and see the real face of war.