World War II
People, Politics, and Power
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2009
261 pages
978-1-61530-046-4 (ISBN)
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World War II was a very different war than had previously been fought in the course of history-new technologies and ideas were employed making way for widespread death and new atrocities. This book is a valuable resource that follows the war from the rise of Hitler to the dropping of the atomic bombs, through blitzkrieg and bombings, to the treaty that finally ended it all, noting the effects upon future world politics.
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II, 1929-39
- THE ECONOMIC BLIZZARD
- THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES IS SHREDDED
- THE RISE OF HITLER
- ITALIAN AGGRESSION
- THE FIRST GERMAN MOVE
- BRITISH APPEASEMENT AND AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM
- THE CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN
- JAPAN'S AGGRESSION IN CHINA
- ANSCHLUSS AND THE MUNICH PACT
- CHAPTER 2 AXIS TRIUMPHANT, 1939-41
- THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
- INITIAL FORCES AND RESOURCES OF THE EUROPEAN COMBATANTS
- ARMOURED DIVISIONS AND AIRPOWER
- GERMANY OVERRUNS EUROPE
- POLAND
- THE BALTIC STATES AND THE RUSSO-FINNISH WAR
- GERMAN CONQUESTS IN THE WEST
- THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
- CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
- THE BATTLE FOR AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
- EGYPT AND CYRENAICA
- EAST AFRICA
- IRAQ AND SYRIA
- NAVAL WARFARE IN THE WEST
- HITLER'S GEOPOLITICAL STRATEGY
- GERMANY INVADES THE SOVIET UNION
- THE WAR IN EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
- CHINA
- JAPANESE POLICY BEFORE THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
- PEARL HARBOR AND JAPANESE EXPANSION
- THE FALL OF SINGAPORE
- THE CHINESE FRONT AND BURMA
- CHAPTER 3 AXIS HIGH TIDE, 1941-42
- NORTH AFRICA
- ALLIED STRATEGY AND CONTROVERSIES
- LIBYA AND EGYPT
- GERMANY CAPTURES CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA
- CHAPTER 4 THE TIDE TURNS 1942-43
- JAPANESE RETREAT BEGINS
- ALLIES RETAKE SOUTHEAST ASIAN ISLANDS
- BURMA
- BATTLE OF EL-ALAMEIN AND ROMMEL'S RETREAT
- BATTLE OF STALINGRAD AND THE GERMAN RETREAT
- ALLIED INVASION OF NORTHWEST AFRICA
- ALLIES RETAKE TUNISIA
- COMMAND OF SEA AND SKY IN THE WEST
- U-BOATS AND CONVOYS
- CARPET AND INCENDIARY BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES
- EXTERMINATION AND SLAVE LABOUR IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED EUROPE
- THE EASTERN FRONT AND THE BATTLE OF KURSK
- THE ALLIES COUNTERATTACK IN THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH PACIFIC
- CHAPTER 5 ALLIES TRIUMPHANT, 1944-45
- ITALY COLLAPSES
- SICILY AND THE FALL OF MUSSOLINI
- THE ALLIES' INVASION OF ITALY AND THE ITALIAN VOLTE-FACE
- THE WESTERN ALLIES AND STALIN
- GERMAN TROOP DEPLOYMENT
- THE WESTERN FRONT
- THE EASTERN FRONT
- THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND EAST ASIA
- THE ENCIRCLEMENT OF RABAUL
- WESTERN NEW GUINEA
- THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
- THE BURMESE FRONTIER AND CHINA
- DRIVING THE GERMANS OUT OF ITALY
- THE LIBERATION OF EUROPE
- THE NORMANDY INVASION AND GERMAN RETREAT
- RUSSIAN ADVANCES ON THE EASTERN FRONT
- ALLIED BOMBERS AND GERMAN V1 AND V2 MISSILES
- ALLIED PLANNING FOR POSTWAR EUROPE
- THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
- THE SOVIET ADVANCE TO THE ODER
- YALTA
- THE GERMAN COLLAPSE
- POTSDAM
- THE LIBERATION OF EAST ASIA
- THE PHILIPPINES AND BORNEO
- BURMA AND CHINA
- THE END OF THE JAPANESE WAR
- CHAPTER 6 THE UNITED STATES AT WAR
- THE ROAD TO WAR
- THE UNITED STATES AT WAR
- U.S. WAR PRODUCTION
- FINANCING THE WAR
- SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER 7 COSTS OF THE WAR
- KILLED, WOUNDED, PRISONERS, OR MISSING
- HUMAN AND MATERIAL COST
- EUROPE
- THE FAR EAST
- THE NÜRNBERG AND TOKYO TRIALS
- CHAPTER 8 POLITICAL LEADERS
- ARTHUR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
- CHIANG KAI-SHEK
- SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
- CHARLES DE GAULLE
- HIROHITO
- ADOLF HITLER
- BENITO MUSSOLINI
- HENRI-PHILIPPE PÉTAIN
- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
- JOSEPH STALIN
- TOJO HIDEKI
- HARRY S. TRUMAN
- CHAPTER 9 MILITARY COMMANDERS
- ALLIED COMMANDERS
- UNITED STATES
- GREAT BRITAIN
- SOVIET UNION
- FRANCE
- AXIS COMMANDERS
- GERMANY
- JAPAN
- CHAPTER 10 WASTELAND: THE WORLD AFTER 1945
- THE RUIN OF EUROPE AND JAPAN
- U.S. VISION OF RECONSTRUCTION
- THE END OF EAST-WEST COOPERATION
- CHAPTER 11 THE FINAL SOLUTION
- WANNSEE CONFERENCE
- THE EXTERMINATION CAMPS
- JEWISH RESISTANCE
- WORLD WAR II IN RETROSPECT
- APPENDIX: TABLES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Surveys
- Documentaries
- Scholarly Views
- Official Histories
- INDEX
- Back Cover
