
Scorched Earth
''Powerful, absorbing and endlessly thought-provoking'' SINCLAIR MCKAY
A radical new history of history''s most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers.
In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, and democratic order over the age of empires. Scorched Earth dispatches the myth of World War II as a ''good'' war. Instead, it reveals the conf...
''Powerful, absorbing and endlessly thought-provoking'' SINCLAIR MCKAY
A radical new history of history''s most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers.
In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, and democratic order over the age of empires. Scorched Earth dispatches the myth of World War II as a ''good'' war. Instead, it reveals the conf...