Second World War, The

Synopsis

The Second World War Began In August 1939 On The Edge Of Manchuria And Ended There Exactly Six Years Later With The Soviet Invasion Of Northern China. Using The Most Up-to-date Scholarship And Research, And Writing With Clarity And Compassion, Beevor Assembles The Whole Picture In A Gripping Narrative. 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. Antony Beevor. Maps On Lining Papers.