Penguin History of the Second World War

Name: Penguin History of the Second World War
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ISBN: 9780140285024

ISBN-10: 0140285024

ISBN-13: 9780140285024

Edition: 3rd 1999

Authors: Peter Calvocoressi, John Pritchard, Guy Wint, Peter Calcovoressi

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Originally published in 1972, this book was designed to show a rising generation why World War II happened and how it was conducted.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1344
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of Maps


Acknowledgements


Foreword to the Second Edition


The Western Hemisphere



The Sources of War in Europe



The Background



From Versailles to the Soldiers' Oath: 1919-34



The Futile Opposition: 1934-8



Munich ... Prague ... Warsaw



Hitler's Wars: 1939-41



From Poland to the North Cape



The Fall of France



The Battle of Britain



The Mediterranean, North-Africa and the Middle East



Barbarossa



War with America



Europe under the Nazis



The New Order



Exploitation



Resistance



Revolution in the South-East



France



The Middle Game



The Muster against the Axis



The Clearing of North Africa



The End of Fascism



Hitler's German Enemies



Great Britain at War



The Defeat of Germany: 1942-5



The Battle of the Seas



The Victory of the USSR



Mass Bombing



The Western Fronts



Disintegration


Epilogue


The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict



Asian Conflict



China and Japan



Japan in International Affairs



The Japan Which Struck



The China Which Was Struck At



Naval Conflicts by Methods Short of War



The Great Manchurian Adventure



China: Internal Revolutions and Foreign Policy



Japan: Internal Revolutions and Foreign Policy



The War Resumed: The Outbreak of the China Incident



International Alarums: Japan and Appeasement



India and the Conflict



The Magnetic North



Ocean Clash



The War Changes its Character



The Negotiation preceding War



The Bombardment of Pearl Harbor



The War after Pearl Harbor



The High Tide of War



Japan's Hundred Days



The Storm in India



Four Loose Threads



MacArthur and Nimitz in the Pacific



The Defeat of Japan



Mid-1943



Two Indian Armies



China 1942-3



Twilight



The End


Epilogue


Chronological Skeleton


Bibliographies


Maps


Index: The Western Hemisphere


Index: The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict