The World War II 100
Subtitle: a ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War
By: Howard J. Langer
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780785823667
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Biography; Heads of state; Generals; Admirals; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Biographies; Chefs d'État; Généraux
Other titles: World War Two 100; World War Two One Hundred; World War 2 100; World War 2 One Hundred; Ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-324) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A brief history of World War II; title: Adolf Hitler : Cruel and cunning; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt : Risking impeachment; title: Winston S. Churchill : From defeat, defiance; title: Joseph Stalin : Ruthless and paranoid; title: George C. Marshall : First in war, first in peace; title: Isoruku Yamamoto : Planning Pearl Harbor; title: Dwight D. Eisenhower : Leader of the coalition; title: Douglas MacArthur : "I shall return."; title: Jimmy Doolittle : The raider from "Shangri-La"; title: Douglas Bader : Legend of the RAF; title: George S. Patton, Jr. : The fightingest field commander; title: Heinz Guderian : Master of the Blitzkrieg; title: Albert Einstein : The pacifist who won the war; title: Harry S. Truman : "The buck stops here"; title: Stewart Menzies : Master of the ultra secret; title: Bertram Ramsay : A miracle at Dunkirk; title: Georgi Zhukov : Stalin's toughest general; title: Chester Nimitz : up from the canvas; title: Husband E. Kimmel/Walter Short : Foul-ups-or fall guys?; title: Ernest J. King : "No fighter ever won by covering up."; title: Henry L. Stimson : Bipartisanship in time of peril; title: Harry L. Hopkins : "Lord root-of-the-matter"; title: William Stephenson : The spy in Rockefeller Center; title: William J. Donovan : American spymaster; title: Reinhard Heydrich : Plots and paranoia; title: William F. Halsey, Jr. : The navy's "Patton"; title: Henri Petain : The man from Vichy; title: Alan Brooke : Churchill's "Marshall"; title: Hideki Tojo : A time for hara-kiri; title: J. Robert Oppenheimer : "I am become death ..."; title: Wenher von Braun : Father of the V-2; title: Leslie R. Groves : Director of the Manhattan Project; title: Omar Bradley : The G.I.'s general; title: Arthur Harris : The 1,000 plane raider; title: Thomas Kinkaid : In the spirit of John Paul Jones; title: C.A.F. Sprague : "Combustible, vulnerable, expendable"; title: Bernard Montgomery : He chased the desert fox; title: Takeo Kurita : A sea battle and an election; title: Erwin Rommel : Destination : Suez?; title: William Friedman : Shakespeare, bacon, and the purple code; title: Henry J. Arnold : Champion of airpower; title: Vasily Chuikov : Hero of Stalingrad; title: Hermann Goering : From air ace to war criminal; title: Joseph Goebbels : Propagandist to the end; title: Masaharu Homma : A question of responsibility; title: Alfred Jodl : Unconditional surrender; title: Konstantin Rokossovsky : The captive hero; title: Wilhelm Keitel : The man who obeyed orders; title: Emperor Hirohito : The last word; title: Benito Mussolini : Hitler's junior partner; title: Charles De Gaulle : Leader of free France; title: Joachim von Ribbentrop : the role of the deal-maker; title: Vyacheslav M. Molotov : Man of the hammer; title: Semyon Timoshenko : Rebuilder of the red army; title: William L. Shirer : From reporter to historian; title: Gerd von Rundstedt : The Fuhrer's bluntest general; title: Friedrich von Paulus : The field marshal and the corporal; title: Tomoyuki Yamashita : The tiger of Malaya; title: Jean Darlan : Behind the north African landings; title: Frank Knox : From rough rider to navy boss; title: Josip Broz (Tito) : Guerrilla warfare; title: Maurice Gamelin : How France lost the war; title: Robert Murphy : A "Diplomat among warriors"; title: Karl Doenitz : Commander of the u-boats; title: Heinrich Himmler : The Fuhrer's hit man; title: Neville Chamberlain : The great appeaser?; title: Anthony McAuliffe : Crisis at Bastogne; title: Gustav Krupp/Alfred Krupp : The family business; title: Andrew Jackson Higgins : Eureka!; title: Edward R. Murrow : "This ... is London."; title: Ernie Pyle : The little guy's war; title: Bill Mauldin : Up front; title: Breckinridge Long : Silent partner of the Holocaust?; title: Pietro Badoglio : Surrendering Italy; title: Francisco Franco : Prelude to a world war; title: Harold Alexander : Ike's first choice; title: Albert Speer : The slave master; title: Eleanor Roosevelt/Madame Chiang Kai-shek/Queen Elizabeth : The feminine mystique; title: Lavrenti Beria : Scorched earth and non-persons; title: Galeazzo Ciano : Mussolini's heir apparent; title: Eduard Benes : Humiliation at Munich; title: Wladyslaw Sikorski : Betrayal and death; title: Joseph W. Stilwell : The mission that failed; title: Jonathan Wainwright : Last message from Corregidor; title: The Sullivan brothers/The four chaplains : On brotherhood; title: Charles Lindbergh, Jr. : The isolationists' poster boy; title: Chiang Kai-shek : The agony of China; title: Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski : Leader of an underground army; title: Claus von Stauffenberg : The plot that failed; title: Anne Frank : Keeping a diary; title: Adolf Eichmann : "Terribly and terrifyingly normal" : Robert Jackson : Judgment at Nurenburg; title: Henry Morgenthau, Jr. : A plan for Germany; title: Cordell Hull : Architect of the United Nations; title: George VI/Christian X/Leopold III : Crowned heads, royal symbols; title: Haile Selassie : The plea that failed; title: Mordecai Anielewicz : He fought back; title: Joseph P. Kennedy : A controversial ambassador; title: Paul Reynaud : A voice in the wilderness; title: Pope Pius XII : The sound of silence.