Presented in September 2022 folder. A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade.´ Saul David, The Times. ´This book is Richard Overy´s magnum opus ... It would be difficult to overstate the brilliance with which argument and insight are interwoven in a fast-paced narrative.´ John Darwin, Times Literary Supplement. A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain´s foremost military historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath