Fateful Choices

In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940; when Britain chose not to surrender; and December 1941; when Hitler decided to destroy Europe's Jews; showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.