Collapse by Jonathan Fennell - ISBN: 9780241753507
Hardcover
World plunged into war: witness the collapse of civilization.
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A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941

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  • Hardcover

    752 pages

  • Release Date

    6 October 2026

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Summary

The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning young academic, based on new sources

Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises broke out that threatened collective security, world order and the internal cohesion of states across the globe. At the heart of these crises was a world war that shook the foundations of global power, a watershed moment in the history of the Twentieth Century.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241753507
ISBN-10:0241753503
Author:Jonathan Fennell
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Viking
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:752
Release Date:6 October 2026
Weight:918g
Dimensions:240mm x 156mm x 40mm
About The Author

Jonathan Fennell

Jonathan Fennell is Professor of the History of War and Society at King’s College London. He is Director of Research at the Defence Studies Department, Co-Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, and Co-Founder and President of the international scholarly society, the Second World War Research Group.

His most recent monograph, Fighting the People’s War - The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War, won the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2020 and the Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal.

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