La Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) fue el episodio más sangriento del siglo XX. Fue una guerra total que se extendió por el mundo entero, en la cual los países beligerantes utilizaron todos los medios a su alcance, humanos y tecnológicos, con un único objetivo. Por su poder de destrucción y dimensión global, el coste humano y material de la guerra fue inmensurable. Se produjeron masacres de civiles y de prisioneros de guerra, y un genocidio organizado desde el Estado que asesinó a 6 millones de judíos. De las cenizas del viejo mundo emergió uno nuevo. Sin embargo, todavía hoy contemplamos las repercusiones de aquella guerra.

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En este libro Weinberg nos ofrece una magistral visión de conjunto del conflicto, que arranca de sus causas –el ascenso de Hitler, la crisis de Checoslovaquia, los planes de guerra de Japón...-, sigue paso a paso la evolución de los combates, ilustrándolos con una excelente serie de mapas, y analiza, al propio tiempo, el impacto que la guerra tuvo en la vida cotidiana de la población civil. Esta es, en suma, una historia esencial en que uno de los máximos conocedores del tema pone a nuestro alcance los conocimientos fundamentales para entender lo que significó la mayor de las guerras de la historia, que causó sesenta millones de muertos, en su mayoría entre la población civil.

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