The Second World War
By: Antony Beevor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 863
ISBN-13: 9780316023740
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outbreak of war; title: "The wholesale destruction of Poland"; title: From phoney war to Blitzkrieg; title: The dragon and the rising sun; title: Norway and Denmark; title: Onslaught in the West; title: The fall of France; title: Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain; title: Reverberations; title: Hitler's Balkan war; title: Africa and the Atlantic; title: Barbarossa; title: Rassenkrieg; title: The "Grand Alliance"; title: The battle for Moscow; title: Pearl Harbor; title: China and the Philippines; title: War across the world; title: Wannsee and the SS Archipelago; title: Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway; title: Defeat in the desert; title: Operation Blau-Barbarossa relauched; title: Fighting back in the Pacific; title: Stalingrad; title: Alamein and Torch; title: Southern Russia and Tunisia; title: Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis; title: Europe behind barbed wire; title: The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing; title: The Pacific, China and Burma; title: The Battle of Kursk; title: From Sicily to Italy; title: Ukraine and the Teheran Conference; title: The Shoah by gas; title: Italy-the hard underbelly; title: The Soviet spring offensive; title: The Pacific, China and Burma; title: The spring of expectations; title: Bagration and Normandy; title: Berlin, Warsaw and Paris; title: The Ichigo Offensive and Leyte; title: Unrealized hopes; title: The Ardennes and Athens; title: From the Vistula to the Oder; title: Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids; title: Yalta, Dresden, Konigsberg; title: Americans on the Elbe; title: The Berlin operation; title: Cities of the dead; title: The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan