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Description -PUNISHER- Proudly Presents : =================== Title: World War II: The Definitive Visual History Author(s): DK Publishing Publisher: DK Publishing Year: 2009 Language: English Pages: 360 ISBN: 0756642787, 9780756642785, 9780756656058 Description : World War II is divided into nine chronological chapters, each introduced by a general overview of the military and political situation. This is followed by a comprehensive timeline, covering events in all theaters of the war. The opening chapter analyzes the build-up of hostility in the years leading up the war, both in Europe and in the Pacific. Similarly the final chapter analyzes the immediate and long-term consequences of the war and the way it has shaped recent history. In the chapters that cover the events of the war itself, the main spreads move from one theater of war to another but are linked by an easy-to-use system of cross referencing to earlier events and the consequences of the actions described on the spread. The main spreads are interspersed with features, eyewitness accounts, and galleries of weaponry and equipment. This title differs from DK's previous World War II title, in that it is a spread-by-spread account á la History (with ''previous'' and ''following'' tabs placing each spread in chronological context) of the war, rather than a narrative that needs to be read from start to finish. Table of contents : CONTENTS......Page 6 1. THE SEEDS OF WAR 1914–1938......Page 13 Introduction......Page 14 Timeline......Page 16 The War to End War......Page 18 The Flawed Peace......Page 20 Fascism and Nazism......Page 22 Benito Mussolini ......Page 24 Hitler Takes Power......Page 26 The Nazi State......Page 28 The Berlin Olympics ......Page 30 Civil Wars in China......Page 32 Japan on the March......Page 34 Rise of the Axis......Page 36 Weakness of the Democracies......Page 38 The Spanish Civil War......Page 40 Japan invades China......Page 42 Appeasing Hitler......Page 44 2. EUROPE GOES TO WAR 1939......Page 47 Introduction......Page 48 Timeline......Page 50 The Path to War......Page 52 Rifles ......Page 54 Declarations of War......Page 56 Adolf Hitler ......Page 58 Poland Destroyed......Page 60 The Phoney War......Page 62 Early Skirmishes......Page 64 The Winter War......Page 66 Joseph Stalin ......Page 68 3. GERMANY TRIUMPHANT 1940......Page 71 Introduction......Page 72 Timeline......Page 74 The Invasion of Denmark and Norway......Page 76 Blitzkrieg......Page 79 Dunkirk......Page 80 The Evacuation of Dunkirk ......Page 83 The Fall of France......Page 84 The Battle of Britain......Page 86 Winston Churchill ......Page 88 The Blitz......Page 90 Refuge from the Blitz ......Page 92 Britain Organizes for Total War......Page 94 The Home Front in Europe ......Page 96 America Backs Britain......Page 98 Italy Enters the War......Page 100 4. THE WIDENING WAR 1941......Page 103 Introduction......Page 104 Timeline......Page 106 Life under the Swastika......Page 108 Life under German Occupation ......Page 110 Governments in Exile......Page 112 Charles de Gaulle ......Page 114 Propaganda ......Page 116 The Secret War......Page 118 The U-Boat War......Page 120 Life on a U-boat ......Page 122 Hunting the Bismarck......Page 124 The War in the Desert......Page 126 Medicine in the Field ......Page 128 Erwin Rommel ......Page 130 Conflicts in the Middle East......Page 132 The Balkans Invaded......Page 134 Operation Barbarossa......Page 136 Leningrad Besieged ......Page 139 Nazi Massacres......Page 140 Moscow Saved......Page 142 America on the Brink......Page 144 Franklin D. Roosevelt ......Page 146 Japan Gambles on War......Page 148 Pearl Harbor......Page 150 Attack on Pearl Harbor ......Page 152 5. THE SHIFTING BALANCE 1942......Page 155 Introduction......Page 156 Timeline......Page 158 The Japanese Onslaught......Page 160 The New Japanese Empire......Page 162 Coral Sea and Midway......Page 164 Guadalcanal......Page 166 Defending Australia......Page 168 America Organizes for Victory......Page 170 Women in Industry ......Page 173 Secret Armies......Page 174 Espionage ......Page 176 The Holocaust......Page 178 Rounding up the Jews ......Page 180 Malta and the Mediterranean......Page 182 El Alamein......Page 184 Bernard Montgomery ......Page 186 Torch Landings......Page 188 Saving the Soviet Union......Page 191 The German Drive to the East......Page 192 Soviet Triumph at Stalingrad......Page 194 Stalingrad ......Page 196 6. THE ALLIES TURN THE TIDE 1943......Page 199 Introduction......Page 200 Timeline......Page 202 Allied Leaders Plan for Victory......Page 204 Showdown in the Atlantic......Page 206 Sinking of Merchant Ships ......Page 209 Communications ......Page 210 The Invasion of Sicily......Page 212 Held by the Gustav Line......Page 214 Bombing Germany by Night......Page 216 Bombing Germany by Day......Page 218 USAAF Raid on Schweinfurt ......Page 220 The German War Industry......Page 222 The French Resistance......Page 224 Prisoners of War in Europe......Page 226 The Battle of Kursk......Page 228 Georgy Zhukov ......Page 230 Island-Hopping in the Pacific......Page 232 7. OVERWHELMING FORCE 1944......Page 235 Introduction......Page 236 Timeline......Page 238 Battles for the Marianas......Page 240 Return to the Philippines......Page 242 Landing in the Philippines......Page 244 Douglas MacArthur ......Page 246 Suffering China......Page 248 Turning Point in Burma......Page 250 Jungle Warfare in Burma ......Page 253 The Fall of Rome......Page 254 Preparing for D-Day......Page 256 Dwight D. Eisenhower ......Page 258 C......Page 354 F......Page 355 I......Page 356 M......Page 357 P......Page 358 S......Page 359 Z......Page 360 Acknowledgments ......Page 361 Related Torrents
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