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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

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