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Citadel Press
Language
English
Pages
302

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction xi
One
THE BIG PICTURE 1
A World at Arms:A Global History of World War II by
Gerhard L.Weinberg 3
The Times Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan 6
Brute Force by John Ellis 9
War in the Shadows by Robert B.Asprey 11
The Battle for History by John Keegan 18
The Historical Encyclopedia of World War II by
Marcel Baudot, Henri Bernard, and Hendrik Brugmans 21
The Second World War by Winston S.Churchill 24
The World War IIAlmanac: 1931-1945 by Robert Goralski 29
The World War II Databook by John Ellis and Michael Cox 30
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy 33
Two
THE WAR IN THE WEST (EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST) 39
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D.Eisenhower 41
Deception in World War II by Charles Cruickshank 47
Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and
Germany, 1944-1945 by Russell Weigley 55
Fighting Power: German and U.S.Army Performance,
1939-1945 by Martin Van Creveld 60
viii Contents
Hitler's Last Weapons by Jozef Garlinski 68
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by
Max Hastings 73
Popski's Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff 81
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.Shirer 84
The Battle of Britain by Richard Hough and Denis Richards 90
The Last 100 Days by John Toland 93
The Wizard War by R.V.Jones 95
Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944-45 by
Ralph Francis Bennett 99
WarAs I Knew It by George S.Patton 104
Three
THE WAR IN RUSSIA 119
Great Battles on the Eastern Front byTrevor Dupuy and
Paul Martell 121
Russia at War: 1941-1945 by Alexander Werth 130
Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century
edited by G.F.Krivosheev 136
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by
David M.Glantz and Jonathan M.House 140
Four
THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC 145
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy,
1941-1945 by Paul S.Dull 147
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H.Spector 151
Guadalcanal by Richard B.Frank 155
Japan at War:An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook and
Theodore F.Cook 161
Silent Victory: The US.Submarine WarAgainst Japan by
Clay Blair Jr 164
Soldiers of the Sun by Meirion and Susie Harries 170
Stilwell and the American Experience in China,
1911-45 by Barbara W.Tuchman 175
The Japanese Navy in World War II in the Words of Former
Japanese Naval Officers edited by David C.Evans *181
The Pacific War by Saburo Ienaga 185
The Two-Ocean War by Samuel Eliot Morison 188
War Plan Orange: The U.S.Strategy to Defeat Japan,
1897-1945 by Edward S.Miller 194
Five
LARGER ISSUES 197
Commandos and Rangers of World War II by James Ladd 199
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II 205
Marching Orders by Bruce Lee 210
Reporting World War II 217
The American Magic by Ronald Lewin 219
The American Soldier by S.A.Stouffer et al223
The Good War by Studs Terkel 237
The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S.and the Origins of the C.I.A.
by Bradley Smith 239
There's a War to Be Won by Geoffrey Perret 244
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey 248
United States Army in World War II by various authors 254
Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II by
Geoffrey Perret 269
APPENDIX 281
Dirty Little Secrets of World War II by James F.Dunnigan
and Albert A.Nofi
The War in the Pacific Encyclopedia by James F.Dunnigan
and Albert A.Nofi
INDEX 287 <BR><BR>Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 Bibliography, World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York
Genre
Bibliography.
Other Titles
World War 2 bookshelf, World War two bookshelf

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
016.94053
Library of Congress
D739 .D86 2004, D743

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 302 p. ;
Number of pages
302

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Open Library
OL3313323M
ISBN 10
0806526092
LCCN
2004100514
OCLC/WorldCat
55060611
Goodreads
1419464

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