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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| A New World and a New War | |
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| Versailles Settlement Locarno | |
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| Japanese Imperialism Civil war in China | |
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| Manchurian Campaign Rise of Hitler | |
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| Abyssinian Crisis Occupation of the Rhineland Spanish | |
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| Civil War Campaign in China Anschluss | |
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| Munich Crisis British guarantee to Poland Nazi-Soviet Pact Anglo-Polish Alliance Outbreak of War | |
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| Conquest by Installments Hitler's leadership | |
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| Polish campaign War at sea Scandinavia | |
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| The Winter War Norwegian campaign Campaign in Western Europe | |
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| Fall of France Balkans diplomacy East Africa | |
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| Battle of Britain Italy and the invasion of Greece | |
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| North Africa Campaigns in Yugoslavia and Greece | |
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| Battle for Crete Battle of the Atlantic Operation | |
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| Barbarossa Soviet moves and counter-attacks Start of the Pacific War | |
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| Global Conflict Aspects of the Pacific War | |
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| Pearl Harbor Siam and Malaya Invasion of the Philippines Hong Kong | |
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| Borneo, campaign in the Indies Fall of Singapore Burma Coral Sea | |
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| Midway Germany declares war on the United States Battle of the Atlantic | |
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| North Africa and El Alamein New Guinea | |
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| Guadalcanal German position, mid-1942 Defeats in the Crimea | |
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| Kharkov Advances towards Stalingrad and the Caucasus Soviet counter-attack | |
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| Torch landings Axis retreat from Egypt and Libya Operations | |
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| Uranus, Little Saturn, Gallop, Star Kharkov | |
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| 1943 and the Eleventh Principle of War Review of 1943 | |
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| Casablanca conference Allied conferences U.S. policy in the Pacific | |
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| China, Burma Battle of the Atlantic Convoy losses | |
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| Impact of Allied sea power Strategic air offensive | |
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| Area bombing policy Pointblank directive | |
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| War economies Eastern Front Kursk Wavering of Germany's allies | |
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| Time, Space and Doctrine Problems of Germany and Japan compared | |
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| The Pacific, 1943 Campaigns in the Solomons, eastern New Guinea, the Gilberts Burma | |
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| Arakan and Chindit operations | |
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| China Truk Clearing of the Marshalls Hollandia operation U.S. landings in western | |
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| New Guinea Saipan Battle of the Philippine | |
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| Sea Mediterranean policy Landings in Sicily | |
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| Italian campaign Operation Overlord Operation | |
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| Market Garden Eastern Front Soviet 1944 operations | |
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| Defection of Germany's allies Retreat from Greece and southern Yugoslavia Defense of Hungary | |
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| Kalo'smi Situation in China Ichi-Go offensive | |
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| Imphal and Kohima Japanese defeats in the Pacific Battle of Leyte Gulf | |
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| Campaign on Luzon Strategic bombing campaigns against | |
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| Germany and Japan German recovery, late 1944 | |
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| Allied operations in France and the Low Countries | |
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| Ardennes campaign Eastern Front Vistula-Oder offensive | |
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| Liberation of the death camps | |
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| Clearing the west bank of the Rhine Yalta conference | |
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| Soviet drive on Berlin Suicide of Hitler | |
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| German surrender Liberation of Prague Last months of Japanese war | |
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| Manhattan project Potsdam declaration Iwo Jima Okinawa campaign Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| Manchurian campaign Japanese surrender | |
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| The Accounting | |
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| Appendixes and Postscript | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Campaign index | |
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| General index | |