Collapse by Jonathan Fennell - ISBN: 9780241861028
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Global war’s devastating dawn: from civilized world to barbarity.
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A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941

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  • Paperback

    752 pages

  • Release Date

    6 October 2026

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Summary

The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning young academic, based on new sources.

Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises threatened world order and the very functioning of states, as well as destroying or changing millions of ordinary people’s lives. At the heart of these upheavals was an all-encompassing war that was a watershed moment in modern history.

Collapse tells the story of the fir…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241861028
ISBN-10:0241861020
Author:Jonathan Fennell
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:752
Release Date:6 October 2026
About The Author

Jonathan Fennell

Jonathan Fennell is Professor of the History of War and Society at King’s College London. He is Director of Research at the Defence Studies Department, Co-Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, and Co-Founder and President of the international scholarly society, the Second World War Research Group.

His most recent monograph, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War, won the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2020 and the Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal.

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