December 1941
Subtitle: twelve days that began a world war
By: Evan Mawdsley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780300154450
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1 December: Japan, Germany, and the coming world war; title: 1 December: the fight to the death in Russia; title: 1 December: London, Libya, and the dangers of the Far East; title: 1 December: Washington, magic, and the Japanese peril; title: 2 December: two doomed battleships in Singapore; title: 3 December: the president's secret promise; title: 4 December: Hitler and Japan's war of conquest; title: 5 December: the lull before two storms; title: 6 December: General Zhukov throws in his armies; title: 7 December: date of infamy: Japan's undeclared wars in Malaya and Hawaii; title: 8 December: the beginning of the end of the British empire; title: 9 December: FDR begins the American century; title: 10 December: Force 'Z' and the Malayan tragedy; title: 11 December: Hitler's war on America; title: 12 December: world war and the destruction of the Jews; title: Aftermath: the new war and a new world.