An edition of The World War II 100
(2001)
The World War II 100
a ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War
by Howard Langer
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The World War II 100: a ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War
2007, Castle Books
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The World War II 100: a ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War
2001, New Page Books
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Table of Contents
Introduction : A brief history of World War II
Adolf Hitler : Cruel and cunning
Franklin D. Roosevelt : Risking impeachment
Winston S. Churchill : From defeat, defiance
Joseph Stalin : Ruthless and paranoid
George C. Marshall : First in war, first in peace
Isoruku Yamamoto : Planning Pearl Harbor
Dwight D. Eisenhower : Leader of the coalition
Douglas MacArthur : "I shall return."
Jimmy Doolittle : The raider from "Shangri-La"
Douglas Bader : Legend of the RAF
George S. Patton, Jr. : The fightingest field commander
Heinz Guderian : Master of the Blitzkrieg
Albert Einstein : The pacifist who won the war
Harry S. Truman : "The buck stops here"
Stewart Menzies : Master of the ultra secret
Bertram Ramsay : A miracle at Dunkirk
Georgi Zhukov : Stalin's toughest general
Chester Nimitz : up from the canvas
Husband E. Kimmel/Walter Short : Foul-ups-or fall guys?
Ernest J. King : "No fighter ever won by covering up."
Henry L. Stimson : Bipartisanship in time of peril
Harry L. Hopkins : "Lord root-of-the-matter"
William Stephenson : The spy in Rockefeller Center
William J. Donovan : American spymaster
Reinhard Heydrich : Plots and paranoia
William F. Halsey, Jr. : The navy's "Patton"
Henri Petain : The man from Vichy
Alan Brooke : Churchill's "Marshall"
Hideki Tojo : A time for hara-kiri
J. Robert Oppenheimer : "I am become death ..."
Wenher von Braun : Father of the V-2
Leslie R. Groves : Director of the Manhattan Project
Omar Bradley : The G.I.'s general
Arthur Harris : The 1,000 plane raider
Thomas Kinkaid : In the spirit of John Paul Jones
C.A.F. Sprague : "Combustible, vulnerable, expendable"
Bernard Montgomery : He chased the desert fox
Takeo Kurita : A sea battle and an election
Erwin Rommel : Destination : Suez?
William Friedman : Shakespeare, bacon, and the purple code
Henry J. Arnold : Champion of airpower
Vasily Chuikov : Hero of Stalingrad
Hermann Goering : From air ace to war criminal
Joseph Goebbels : Propagandist to the end
Masaharu Homma : A question of responsibility
Alfred Jodl : Unconditional surrender
Konstantin Rokossovsky : The captive hero
Wilhelm Keitel : The man who obeyed orders
Emperor Hirohito : The last word
Benito Mussolini : Hitler's junior partner
Charles De Gaulle : Leader of free France
Joachim von Ribbentrop : the role of the deal-maker
Vyacheslav M. Molotov : Man of the hammer
Semyon Timoshenko : Rebuilder of the red army
William L. Shirer : From reporter to historian
Gerd von Rundstedt : The Fuhrer's bluntest general
Friedrich von Paulus : The field marshal and the corporal
Tomoyuki Yamashita : The tiger of Malaya
Jean Darlan : Behind the north African landings
Frank Knox : From rough rider to navy boss
Josip Broz (Tito) : Guerrilla warfare
Maurice Gamelin : How France lost the war
Robert Murphy : A "Diplomat among warriors"
Karl Doenitz : Commander of the u-boats
Heinrich Himmler : The Fuhrer's hit man
Neville Chamberlain : The great appeaser?
Anthony McAuliffe : Crisis at Bastogne
Gustav Krupp/Alfred Krupp : The family business
Andrew Jackson Higgins : Eureka!
Edward R. Murrow : "This ... is London."
Ernie Pyle : The little guy's war
Bill Mauldin : Up front
Breckinridge Long : Silent partner of the Holocaust?
Pietro Badoglio : Surrendering Italy
Francisco Franco : Prelude to a world war
Harold Alexander : Ike's first choice
Albert Speer : The slave master
Eleanor Roosevelt/Madame Chiang Kai-shek/Queen Elizabeth : The feminine mystique
Lavrenti Beria : Scorched earth and non-persons
Galeazzo Ciano : Mussolini's heir apparent
Eduard Benes : Humiliation at Munich
Wladyslaw Sikorski : Betrayal and death
Joseph W. Stilwell : The mission that failed
Jonathan Wainwright : Last message from Corregidor
The Sullivan brothers/The four chaplains : On brotherhood
Charles Lindbergh, Jr. : The isolationists' poster boy
Chiang Kai-shek : The agony of China
Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski : Leader of an underground army
Claus von Stauffenberg : The plot that failed
Anne Frank : Keeping a diary
Adolf Eichmann : "Terribly and terrifyingly normal" : Robert Jackson : Judgment at Nurenburg
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. : A plan for Germany
Cordell Hull : Architect of the United Nations
George VI/Christian X/Leopold III : Crowned heads, royal symbols
Haile Selassie : The plea that failed
Mordecai Anielewicz : He fought back
Joseph P. Kennedy : A controversial ambassador
Paul Reynaud : A voice in the wilderness
Pope Pius XII : The sound of silence.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-324) and indexes.
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