The Second World War: Ambitions to Nemesis

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 mai 2004

Bradley Lightbody presents a fascinating and accessible history of the Second World War in its global context. Examining the war around general themes from ambition and advance, through expansion and containment, to rout and victory, The Second World War covers all the major theatres and events of the war.
From the origins and background to the war to its aftermath and legacy, The Second World War covers:
* the pre-war ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan
* the outbreak of the war in Poland
* the 'Phoney War'
* Blitzkrieg, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain
* Pearl Harbour
* the war in North Africa and El Alamein
* the final solution
* D-Day, the liberation of Italy and deliverance from the concentration camps
* the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the global ambitions and the global warfare that was the Second World War, making it essential reading for all students of twentieth century world history.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415224048
ISBN-10: 0415224047
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction PART 1 Ambition 1 Rising sun 2 Weimar revision 3 Fascist Italy 4 Nazi challenge 5 Counter-challenge PART 2 Outbreak 6 Case White: Poland 7 The phoney war 8 The Winter War PART 3 Advance 9 Copenhagen to Narvik 10 Blitzkrieg in the west 11 Fall of France 12 Battle of Britain 13 Italy on the march PART 4 Expansion 14 North Africa and the Balkans 15 Battle of the Atlantic 16 Barbarossa 17 Final Solution 18 Pearl Harbor 19 Pacific hegemony PART 5 Containment 20 Midway 21 El Alamein 22 Stalingrad PART 6 Contraction 23 Clearance of North Africa 24 Defeat on the Eastern Front 25 Bomber offensive 126 Kriegsmarine repulsed 27 Invasion of Italy 28 Pacific reversal PART 7 Rout 29 Fall of Rome 20 Rollback on the Eastern Front 31 Overlord 32 Islands 33 Stalemate on the West Wall 34 The Holocaust PART 8 Nemesis 35 Mussolini’s last stand 36 Götterdämmerung 37 The bomb PART 9 Reconstruction 38 Ideals and post-war realities

Notă biografică

Bradley Lightbody is a lead consultant with The Quiet Associates, a firm of education consultants and College UK. He was, until recently, Head of History at Dewsbury College, West Yorkshire. He has published previously on twentieth-century world history, The Cold War (1999).

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A fascinating and accessible history of the Second World War in its global context, this book studies the major events of the war and general themes from ambition and advance and expansion and containment, to rout and victory.

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