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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bradley Lightbody |
| ISBN: | 0415224047 9780415224048 0415224055 9780415224055 9780203644584 0203644581 |
| OCLC Number: | 53814133 |
| Description: | ix, 290 p. : maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Ambition: 1. Rising Sun ; 2. Weimar revision ; 3. Fascist Italy ; 4. Nazi challenge ; 5. Counter-challenge -- Outbreak: 6. Case White: Poland ; 7. The phoney war ; 8. The winter war -- Advance: 9. Copenhagen to Narvik ; 10. Blitzkrieg in the West ; 11. Fall of France ; 12. Battle of Britain ; 13. Italy on the march -- Expansion: 14. North Africa and the Balkans ; 15. Battle of the Atlantic ; 16. Barbarossa ; 17. Final solution ; 18. Pearl Harbor ; 19. Pacific hegemony -- Containment: 20. Midway ; 21. El Alamein ; 22. Stalingrad -- Contraction: 23. Clearance of North Africa ; 24. Defeat on the Eastern Front ; 25. Bomber offensive ; 26. Kriegsmarine repulsed ; 27. Invasion of Italy ; 28. Pacific reversal -- Rout: 29. Fall of Rome ; 30. Rollback on the Eastern Front ; 31. Overlord ; 32. Islands ; 33. Stalemate on the West Wall ; 34. The Holocaust -- Nemesis: 35. Mussolini's last stand ; 36. Götterdämmerung ; 37. The bomb -- Reconstruction: 38. Ideals and post-war realities. |
| Other Titles: | 2nd World War |
| Responsibility: | Bradley Lightbody. |
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Abstract:
A comprehensive overview of the global ambitions and the global warfare that was World War II, this title reflects on the immense social, economic and political impact of the war and bears witness to the human cost of the most destructive war in world history.
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