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Bengal Famine

SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/4/2022

Richard Overy's New Book Tells WWII as Global History of Imperial Conflict

by Daniel Immerwahr

"Whatever else the Second World War was about, it was, on both sides, a war for empire."

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Bengal Famine

Richard Overy's New Book Tells WWII as Global History of Imperial Conflict

by Daniel Immerwahr