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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: 1942 By Peter Fritzsche, Read By Teri Schnaubelt
Description: A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale
By the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the globe had been killed, most of them civilians. Cities from Warsaw to Tokyo lay in ruins, and fully half of the world’s two billion people had been mobilized, enslaved, or displaced.
In 1942, historian Peter Fritzsche offers a gripping, ground-level portrait of the decisive year when World War II escalated to global catastrophe. With the United States joining the fight following Ja...