Rain of Ruin

Praise for Richard OveryBlood and Ruins"[A] stupendous achievement...Blood and Ruins dissects the sinews of war with the sharpest of scalpels...It is history at its best, down to the finest points."- Josef Joffe, New York Times Book Review"Blood and Ruins is a monumental work...Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire."- Michael F. Bishop, Wall Street Journal"The Pacific clash over colonies reveals a greater truth about the Second World War...[Blood and Ruins] refuses to treat the Pacific as 'an appendix,' as histories often do. Rather, it sees World War II as a truly 'global event.'"- Daniel Immerwahr, The AtlanticThe Dictators"Gripping...astonishing...superb. [Overy's] skills lie in the fluent telling of a complex story, in the sharp flash of insight, in his patient commitment to the rational explanation of events that sometimes seem to defy all reason."- Jane Caplan, Times Literary SupplementWhy the Allies Won"Clear-sighted...learned, and multifaceted."- Richard Bernstein, New York Times"Broad and insightful."- Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs"A masterpiece of analytical history."- Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times (London)