The Second World War
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Bur...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Co.,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Outbreak of war
- 'The wholesale destruction of Poland'
- From phoney war to Blitzkrieg
- The Dragon and the Rising Sun
- Norway and Denmark
- Onslaught in the West
- The fall of France
- Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain
- Reverberations
- Hitler's Balkan War
- Africa and the Atlantic
- Barbarossa
- Rassenkrieg
- The 'grand alliance'
- The battle for Moscow
- Pearl Harbor
- China and the Philippines
- War across the world
- Wannsee and the SS Archipelago
- Japanese ocuupation and the Battle of Midway
- Defeat in the desert
- Operation Blau : Barbarossa relaunched
- Fighting back in the Pacific
- Stalingrad
- Alamein and Torch
- Southern Russia and Tunisia
- Casablanca, Kharkov, and Tunis
- Europe behind barbed wire
- The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing
- The Pacific, China, and Burma
- The Battle of Kursk
- From Sicily to Italy
- Ukraine and the Teheran Conference
- The Shoah by gas
- Italy : the hard underbelly
- The Pacific, China, and Burma
- The spring of expectations
- Bagration and Normandy
- Berlin, Warsaw, and Paris
- The Ichigō Offensive and Leyte
- Unrealized hopes
- The Ardennes and Athens
- From the Vistula to the Oder
- Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids
- Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg
- Americans on the Elbe
- The Berlin Operation
- Cities of the dead
- The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan.
