The Second World War
Record details
- ISBN: 0316023744 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780316023740 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
xii, 863 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Maps on lining papers. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Outbreak of war -- "The wholesale destruction of Poland" -- From phoney war to Blitzkrieg -- The dragon and the rising sun -- Norway and Denmark -- Onslaught in the West -- The fall of France -- Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain -- Reverberations -- Hitler's Balkan war -- Africa and the Atlantic -- Barbarossa -- Rassenkrieg -- The "Grand Alliance" -- The battle for Moscow -- Pearl Harbor -- China and the Philippines -- War across the world -- Wannsee and the SS Archipelago -- Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway -- Defeat in the desert -- Operation Blau-Barbarossa relauched -- Fighting back in the Pacific -- Stalingrad -- Alamein and Torch -- Southern Russia and Tunisia -- Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis -- Europe behind barbed wire -- The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The Battle of Kursk -- From Sicily to Italy -- Ukraine and the Teheran Conference -- The Shoah by gas -- Italy-the hard underbelly -- The Soviet spring offensive -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The spring of expectations -- Bagration and Normandy -- Berlin, Warsaw and Paris -- The Ichigo Offensive and Leyte -- Unrealized hopes -- The Ardennes and Athens -- From the Vistula to the Oder -- Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids -- Yalta, Dresden, Konigsberg -- Americans on the Elbe -- The Berlin operation -- Cities of the dead -- The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | 940.54 BEEVOR 2012 | 39851001099515 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |