The Last European War, September 1939/December 1941

This book describes the history of an entire continent during the twoe years from September 1939 to December 1941. John Lukacs looks at many of the myths, military and political, that still obscure the history of the Second World War. He shows how the war was experienced by the many varieties of Europeans involved in it, and presents avivid picture of a civilization at the moment of its greatest agitation.