The Second World War
Subtitle: ambitions to nemesis
By: Bradley Lightbody.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.
Other titles: 2nd World War
Description: "Bradley Lightbody presents a history of the Second World War in its global context. Examining the war around general themes from ambition and advance, through expansion and containment, to rout and victory, The Second World War, covers all the major theatres and events of the war."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ambition: 1. Rising Sun ; 2. Weimar revision ; 3. Italian fascism ; 4. Nazi challenge ; 5. Counter challenge; title: Outbreak: 6. Case White-Poland ; 7. The phoney war ; 8. The winter war; title: Advance: 9. Copenhagen to Narvik ; 10. Blitzkrieg in the West ; 11. Fall of France ; 12. Battle of Britain ; 13. Italy on the march; title: Expansion: 14. Balkans and North Africa ; 15. Battle of the Atlantic ; 16. Barbarossa ; 17. Final solution ; 18. Pearl Harbour ; 19. Pacific hegemony; title: Containment: 20. Middway ; 21. El Alamein ; 22. Stalingrad; title: Contraction: 23. Clearance of North Africa ; 24. Defeat on the Ostfront ; 25. The bomber offensive ; 26. Kriegsmarine repulsed ; 27. Invasion of Italy ; 28. Pacific reversal; title: Rout: 29. Liberation of Italy ; 30. Rollback on the Ostfront ; 31. D-day ; 32. Islands ; 33. Stalemate on the West Wall ; 34. The Holocaust; title: Nemesis: 35. Mussolini's last stand ; 36. Gotterdammerung ; 37. The bomb.