The storm of war
Subtitle: a new history of the Second World War
By: Andrew Roberts
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780061228599
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
Description: A comprehensive history of World War II analyzes the factors that affected the war's outcome and presents stories of many little-known individuals whose experiences displayed the epitome of courage and self-sacrifice.
Notes: Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 648-675) and index.
Table of contents: title: Onslaught. Four invasions : September 1939-April 1940 ; Führer imperator : May-June 1940 ; Last Hope Island : June 1940-June 1941 ; Contesting the Littoral : September 1939-June 1942 ; Kicking in the door : June-December 1941 ; Tokyo typhoon : December 1941-May 1942; title: Climacteric. The everlasting shame of mankind : 1939-1945 ; Five minutes at Midway : June 1942-October 1944 ; Midnight in the devil's gardens : July 1942-May 1943 ; The motherland overwhelms the fatherland : January 1942-February 1943 ; The waves of air and sea : 1939-1945 ; Up the wasp-waist peninsula : July 1943-May 1945; title: Retribution. A salient reversal : March-August 1943 ; The cruel reality : 1939-1945 ; Norman conquest : June-August 1944 ; Western approaches : August 1944-March 1945 ; Eastern approaches : August 1943-May 1945 ; The land of the setting sun : October 1944-September 1945.