- Summary
- Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Beevor, Antony, 1946-
- Published
- New York, NY : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2013
- Edition
- First Back Bay paperback edition
- Contents
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The outbreak of war
"The wholesale destruction of Poland"
From phoney war to Blitzkrieg
The dragon and the rising sun
Norway and Denmark
Onslaught in the West
The fall of France
Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain
Reverberations
Hitler's Balkan war
Africa and the Atlantic
Barbarossa
Rassenkrieg
The "Grand Alliance"
The battle for Moscow
Pearl Harbor
China and the Philippines
War across the world
Wannsee and the SS Archipelago
Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway
Defeat in the desert
Operation Blau
Barbarossa relauched
Fighting back in the Pacific
Stalingrad
Alamein and Torch
Southern Russia and Tunisia
Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis
Europe behind barbed wire
The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing
The Pacific, China and Burma
The Battle of Kursk
From Sicily to Italy
Ukraine and the Teheran Conference
The Shoah by gas
Italy
the hard underbelly
The Soviet spring offensive
The Pacific, China and Burma
The spring of expectations
Bagration and Normandy
Berlin, Warsaw and Paris
The Ichi-gō Offensive and Leyte
Unrealized hopes
The Ardennes and Athens
From the Vistula to the Oder
Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids
Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg
Americans on the Elbe
The Berlin operation
Cities of the dead
The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The outbreak of war -- "The wholesale destruction of Poland" -- From phoney war to Blitzkrieg -- The dragon and the rising sun -- Norway and Denmark -- Onslaught in the West -- The fall of France -- Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain -- Reverberations -- Hitler's Balkan war -- Africa and the Atlantic -- Barbarossa -- Rassenkrieg -- The "Grand Alliance" -- The battle for Moscow -- Pearl Harbor -- China and the Philippines -- War across the world -- Wannsee and the SS Archipelago -- Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway -- Defeat in the desert -- Operation Blau -- Barbarossa relauched -- Fighting back in the Pacific -- Stalingrad -- Alamein and Torch -- Southern Russia and Tunisia -- Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis -- Europe behind barbed wire -- The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The Battle of Kursk -- From Sicily to Italy -- Ukraine and the Teheran Conference -- The Shoah by gas -- Italy -- the hard underbelly -- The Soviet spring offensive -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The spring of expectations -- Bagration and Normandy -- Berlin, Warsaw and Paris -- The Ichi-gō Offensive and Leyte -- Unrealized hopes -- The Ardennes and Athens -- From the Vistula to the Oder -- Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids -- Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg -- Americans on the Elbe -- The Berlin operation -- Cities of the dead -- The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan.
