The Second World War
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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.
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 Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xii, 863 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316023740
0316023744
SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945.