Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II

by Paul Thomas Chamberlin

A powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers

In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order.

In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541619269
• ISBN13: 9781541619265
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 672 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"