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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hanson, Victor Davis, author.
Title: The second world wars : how the first global conflict was fought and won / Victor Davis Hanson.
Description: New York, NY : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC., a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017024227| ISBN 9780465066988 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780465093199 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945. | World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns.
Classification: LCC D743 .H329 2017 | DDC 940.54—dc23
\LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024227
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