Second World War - by Teddy J Uldricks (Paperback)

About the Book

This work provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the Second World War in all its aspects - military, diplomatic, political, economic, social, and ecological. It explores the complex origins of the conflict in Europe and in the Far East as well as its lasting impact on the postwar world.

Book Synopsis

This work provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the Second World War in all its aspects - military, diplomatic, political, economic, social, and ecological. It explores the complex origins of the conflict in Europe and in the Far East as well as its lasting impact on the postwar world.

Review Quotes

"This is an excellent work: thorough, balanced, swathed in short- and long-term perspective, carefully balanced explanations, and easy to read. The general reader and students will have a masterpiece in hand."

Ted Uldricks has succeeded in writing an excellent general history of the Second World War covering all theatres of operation. It is an account of foresight and blindness, tragedy and triumph, cravenness and courage. The book will make an excellent text for an undergraduate course on the Second World War, bound to hold the attention of students and to keep them reading.

Uldricks has written a superb, comprehensive history of the war that is global in nature and based on a mastery of recent scholarship on the subject. His judgements are sound, his assessments fair and balanced, and his writing lucid. Both the general reader and students in undergraduate World War II history classes would certainly benefit from this book.

About the Author

Teddy Uldricks, PhD, has taught college-level courses on the Second World War for over forty years. He is an Emeritus Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Asheville. Dr. Uldricks now teaches a variety of courses on World War II at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written extensively on Russia and the origins of the Second World War, including an earlier book, Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations. He is widely regarded as a leading authority on Soviet foreign affairs in the interwar years. His current research project focuses on the appeasement of aggressors in the 1930s as a global phenomenon.