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The Second World War, Antony Beevor

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Summary
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Extent
xii, 863 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates
Note
Maps on lining papers
Contents
  • 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
Isbn
9780316023757
Instance
Label
The Second World War
Title
The Second World War
Statement of responsibility
Antony Beevor
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1946-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Beevor, Antony
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Best sellers
Label
The Second World War, Antony Beevor
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Maps on lining papers
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
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
Control code
pr00913902
Dimensions
24
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Extent
xii, 863 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780316023757
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
Label
The Second World War, Antony Beevor
Publication
Copyright
Note
Maps on lining papers
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
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
Control code
pr00913902
Dimensions
24
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Extent
xii, 863 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780316023757
Other physical details
illustrations, maps

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