TY - BOOK AU - Holland,James TI - The war in the West: a new history SN - 9780593071656 (hbk.) : AV - D743 U1 - 940.54 HOL 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Bantam Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - Western Front KW - Warfare and Defence KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The Second World War is the most cataclysmic event in recent European history. In this new history James Holland looks at the conflict from a broader perspective than ever before, and in doing so, challenges some of the fundamentals of its by-now familiar story. The first part of this extraordinary new two-volume account spans oceans and continents from the perspectives of all the nations it will engulf ER -