Wealth, war and wisdom
By: Barton M. Biggs.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470223079
Subjects: Stock exchanges -- History -- 20th century; Investments -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects; Wealth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Listen to the market crowd; title: A world darkened by fear : an overview of Soviet, German, and Japanese aggression from 1929-1945; title: Stock markets struggle : from the Great Depression to the start of WWII; title: 'The most splendid, most deadly year' : the time of England's greatest peril; title: Besieged and alone : England in 1941; title: Operation Barbarossa : Germany attacks Russia; title: Miracles at the Coral Sea and Midway : Japan and America; title: Stock markets understood, nobody else did; title: The four horsemen of the apocalypse : what happened to wealth in the countries Germany conquered?; title: France declines financially, economically, and socially; title: Gone with the wind : preserving wealth in Italy and Germany; title: Stalingrad : the battle of the century; title: Defeats and then victories in Asia and North Africa and their effect on global markets; title: The test in Korea: the last battle of WWII; title: Preserving wealth in a time of cholera; title: Barbarians at the gates.