A review by nathanschumer
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy

fast-paced

4.0

really impressive history of ww2 which situates it as a clash of empires, setting up the Axis powers as attempting to create new, equivalent empires to their Allied rivals. There was a really good discussion of WW2 from a military perspective, and a lot of good focus on the economies that backed up the war.