Title: Wealth, war, and wisdom /
Authors: Biggs, Barton, 1932-
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Stock exchanges History; Investments History; World War, 1939-1945 Economic aspects.; Wealth.
Contents: Listen to the market crowd -- A world darkened by fear -- Stock markets struggle -- "1940 : The most splendid, most deadly year" -- Besieged and alone : England in 1941 -- Operation Barbarossa : Germany attacks Russia -- Miracles at the Coral Sea and Midway : Japan and America -- Stock markets understood : nobody else did -- The four horsemen of the apocalypse ride again -- France declines financially, economically, and socially -- Gone with the wind : preserving wealth in Italy and Germany -- Stalingrad : the battle of the century -- Defeats and then victories in Asia and North Africa -- The test in Korea : the last battle of WWII -- Preserving wealth in a time of cholera -- Barbarians at the gates.