Why the Allies Won
by Richard Overy
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, History, and Nonfiction.
Having won an unprecedented series of victories and acquired huge new territories in 1942, Germany and Japan seemed poised to dominate most of the world. A year later both empires were reeling back in the face of Allied assaults. The rapid turnaround, King's College history professor Richard Overy writes, came about largely as a result of technolog...
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Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
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