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The Second World War
by Antony Beevor
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Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14th, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank. - Publisher.
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The Second World War
2012, Little, Brown and Co.
Hardcover
in English
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0316023744 9780316023740
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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 occupation and the Battle of Midway | ||
Defeat in the desert | ||
Operation Blau-Barbarossa relauched | ||
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 Soviet spring offensive | ||
The Pacific, China and Burma | ||
The spring of expectations | ||
Bagration and Normandy | ||
Berlin, Warsaw and Paris | ||
The Ichigo Offensive and Leyte | ||
Unrealized hopes | ||
The Ardennes and Athens | ||
From the Vistula to the Oder | ||
Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids | ||
Yalta, Dresden, Konigsberg | ||
Americans on the Elbe | ||
The Berlin operation | ||
Cities of the dead | ||
The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan |
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