| ISBN |
9780241426463 hardback |
| 0241426464 |
| Title |
A short history of World War II / editorial consultant, Richard Holmes ; contributors : Charles Messenger, Jonathan Bastable, R.G. Grant, Michael Kerrigan, Robin Cross, Ann Kramer, Sally Regan. |
| Published |
London, UK : Darling Kindersley Limited, 2020. |
| Description |
560 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
"Content previously published in World War II : the definitive visual guide"--Title page verso. |
| Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Seeds of war, 1914-1938. The war to end war ; The flawed peace ; Fascism and Nazism ; Hitler takes power ; The Nazi state ; Civil wars in China ; Japan on the march ; Rise of the Axis ; Weakness of the democracies ; The Spanish Civil War ; Japan invades China ; Appeasing Hitler -- Europe goes to war, 1939. The path to war ; Declarations of war ; Poland destroyed ; The phoney war ; Early skirmishes ; The winter war -- Germany triumphant, 1940. The invasion of Denmark and Norway ; Blitzkrieg ; Dunkirk ; The evacuation of Dunkirk ; The fall of France ; The Battle of Britain ; The blitz ; Britain organizes for total war ; America backs Britain ; Italy enters the war -- Widening war, 1941. Life under the swastika ; Governments in exile ; The secret war ; The u-boat war ; Hunting the Bismarck ; The war in the desert ; Conflicts in the middle east ; The Balkans invaded ; Operation Barbarossa ; Nazi massacres ; Moscow saved ; America on the brink ; Japan gambles on war ; Pearl Harbor -- Shifting balance, 1942. The Japanese onslaught ; The new Japanese empire ; Coral Sea and Midway ; Guadalcanal ; Defending Australia ; America organizes for victory ; Secret armies ; The holocaust ; Malta and the Mediterranean ; El Alamein ; Torch landings ; Saving the Soviet Union ; The German drive to the east ; Soviet triumph at Stalingrad -- Allies turn the tide, 1943. Allied leaders plan for victory ; Showdown in the Atlantic ; The invasion of Sicily ; Held by the Gustav Line ; Bombing Germany by day ; The German war industry ; The French resistance ; Prisoners of war in Europe ; The Battle of Kursk ; Island-hopping in the Pacific -- Overwhelming force, 1944. Battles for the Marianas ; Return to the Philippines ; Suffering China ; Turning point in Burma ; The fall of Rome ; Preparing for D-Day ; D-Day landings ; Breakout from Normandy ; Hitler bomb plot ; Liberation of France and Belgium ; Red Army offensive ; Warsaw uprising ; Resistance and civil war in Greece ; Balkan snakepit ; German secret weapons ; Operation Market Garden ; Battle of the Bulge -- Endgame, 1945. Destruction of Germany's cities ; The Allies invade the Reich ; Liberating the Nazi death camps ; Final offensives in Europe ; Deaths of the dictators ; The Battle for Iwo-Jima ; Okinawa ; Japan under siege ; Subjects of the emperor ; Potsdam Conference ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; Japan surrenders -- Aftermath, 1946-1950. Counting the cost ; The fate of the defeated ; The Iron Curtain ; Rebirth of Japan and West Germany ; The end of empires ; Red China ; The Cold War ; The war remembered. |
| Summary |
A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians. A Short History of World War II will appeal equally to the general reader, the veteran who fought in the War, and the student interested in understanding the contemporary political world. |
| Subjects |
World War, 1939-1945 |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works |
| Other Names |
Holmes, Richard, 1946-2011 consultant. |
| Messenger, Charles, 1941- contributor. |
| Bastable, Jonathan contributor. |
| Grant, R. G. contributor. |
| Kerrigan, Michael, 1959- contributor. |
| Cross, Robin contributor. |
| Kramer, Ann contributor. |
| Regan, Sally contributor. |
| Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
Authors:
- Bastable, Jonathan .
- Cross, Robin .
- Grant, R. G. .
- Holmes, Richard, 1946-2011 .
- Kerrigan, Michael, 1959- .
- Kramer, Ann .
- Messenger, Charles, 1941- .
- Regan, Sally .
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