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The World War II book / contributors Adrian Gilbert, Simon Adams, John Farndon, Jacob F. Field, R.G. Grant, Joel Levy, Olivia Smith, Christopher Westhorp.
"Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world. Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold explanatory graphics, The World War II Book explores the causes, key events, and lasting consequences of the Second World War. Using the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key ideas and events during and surrounding the conflict - from the rise of Hitler and Fascism in the 1930s to Pearl Harbor, the D-Day landings, and the bombing of Hiroshima to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Offering a uniquely compelling, accessible, and immediate history of the war, The World War II Book shows how key battles, political and economic forces, individual leaders, and technological advances influenced the course of the conflict."--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780744048391
- ISBN: 0744048397
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The seeds of war 1914-1939 -- Europe goes to war 1939-1940 -- the widening war 1941-1942 -- Turning the tide 1943-1944 -- Endgame 1945. |
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| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford County Library-Steelville | 940.53 WOR (Text) | 33431000652147 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Table of Contents
The World War II Book
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. 10 | |
| The Seeds of War 1914-1939 | ||
| This is a war to end all wars | p. 18 | |
| The Great War | ||
| A peace built on quicksand | p. 20 | |
| A flawed peace | ||
| Democracy is beautiful in theory | p. 22 | |
| Italy and the rise of fascism | ||
| Cruelty commands respect | p. 24 | |
| Rise of the Nazis | ||
| Heil Hitler | p. 30 | |
| Establishing the Nazi state | ||
| The culmination of alienation | p. 34 | |
| Dictators and fragile democracies in Europe | ||
| There will be no communism | p. 40 | |
| The Spanish Civil War | ||
| To make the nation free, we must sacrifice freedom | p. 42 | |
| China in turmoil | ||
| Expansion is the destiny of the Japanese people | p. 44 | |
| Japan on the march | ||
| We demand land and territory | p. 46 | |
| German expansion | ||
| Savagery triumphant | p. 48 | |
| Kristallnacht | ||
| It is us today. It will be you tomorrow | p. 50 | |
| Failure of the League of Nations | ||
| Peace for our time | p. 51 | |
| Appeasing Hitler | ||
| Europe Goes to War 1939-1940 | ||
| A turning point in the history of Europe | p. 56 | |
| Europe on the brink | ||
| They will never emerge from the German embrace | p. 58 | |
| The destruction of Poland | ||
| There is a hush over all Europe | p. 64 | |
| The Phony War | ||
| Men ... stand firm | p. 66 | |
| Preparations for war | ||
| Attack at once, by day or night | p. 67 | |
| Battle of the River Plate | ||
| The wolves will eat well this winter | p. 68 | |
| The Winter War in Finland | ||
| German planes bombed and strafed us | p. 69 | |
| The invasion of Denmark and Norway | ||
| If the tanks succeed then victory follows | p. 70 | |
| Blitzkrieg | ||
| A miracle of deliverance | p. 76 | |
| Dunkirk | ||
| Crushed by the forces hurled against us | p. 80 | |
| The fall of France | ||
| I only need a few thousand dead | p. 88 | |
| Italy enters the war | ||
| Defense of the mother country | p. 90 | |
| Colonial ties | ||
| Never was so much owed by so many to so few | p. 94 | |
| The Battle of Britain | ||
| Stabbed with great fires, shaken by explosions | p. 98 | |
| The Blitz | ||
| We shall never surrender | p. 100 | |
| Britain organizes for total war | ||
| The Widening War 1941-1942 | ||
| We must be the great arsenal of democracy | p. 108 | |
| The end of US neutrality | ||
| She went down with her colors flying | p. 109 | |
| The sinking of the Bismarck | ||
| One torpedo, one ship | p. 110 | |
| The U-boat war intensifies | ||
| I have never seen such defiance of death | p. 114 | |
| War in the Balkans | ||
| The desert is a godforsaken land | p. 118 | |
| North Africa and the Mediterranean | ||
| Join hands with Russia through Iran | p. 122 | |
| Control of the Middle East | ||
| The world will hold its breath | p. 124 | |
| Operation Barbarossa | ||
| Fight for Motherland and victory! | p. 132 | |
| The Great Patriotic War | ||
| The Holocaust of bullets | p. 136 | |
| Nazi massacres | ||
| This means war with America | p. 137 | |
| Japan's dilemma | ||
| A date which will live in infamy | p. 138 | |
| The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor | ||
| Accept no result save victory | p. 146 | |
| America at war | ||
| I shall die only for the emperor | p. 154 | |
| Japanese advances | ||
| How does India profit ... in Britain's war? | p. 158 | |
| India in World War II | ||
| The Pacific struggle | p. 159 | |
| Defending Australia | ||
| A momentous victory is in the making | p. 160 | |
| The Battle of Midway | ||
| A northern saga of heroism, bravery, and endurance | p. 166 | |
| Attacks on Arctic convoys | ||
| The most bombed place on Earth | p. 167 | |
| The siege of Malta | ||
| Might makes right | p. 168 | |
| Nazi Europe | ||
| The Final Solution | p. 172 | |
| The Holocaust | ||
| We must defend the city or die in the attempt | p. 178 | |
| The Battle of Stalingrad | ||
| We were not just prisoners but slaves | p. 184 | |
| Prisoners of war | ||
| The cruel reality | p. 188 | |
| Germany and the reality of war | ||
| The end of the beginning | p. 192 | |
| From Gazala to El Alamein | ||
| At last we are on our way | p. 196 | |
| Operation Torch | ||
| The geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled | p. 198 | |
| The secret war | ||
| Turning the Tide 1943-1944 | ||
| They are finished | p. 208 | |
| Victory in the desert | ||
| The enemy is vicious, clever, and ruthless | p. 210 | |
| The invasion of Italy | ||
| The graveyard of the Japanese army | p. 212 | |
| The battle for the Solomons and New Guinea | ||
| The enemy's new location devices make fighting impossible | p. 214 | |
| A showdown in the Atlantic | ||
| A mighty fire hurricane raced through the streets | p. 220 | |
| Bombing of Germany | ||
| We must use our full resources | p. 224 | |
| Germany's war industry | ||
| Friends in fact, in spirit, and in purpose | p. 225 | |
| Allied summits | ||
| Awake and fight! | p. 226 | |
| Resistance movements | ||
| They were around us, on top of us, and between us | p. 232 | |
| The Battle of Kursk | ||
| Loose lips might sink ships | p. 236 | |
| Propaganda | ||
| The magnificent heroic struggle | p. 242 | |
| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | ||
| Every man should do his utmost | p. 244 | |
| The western Pacific | ||
| Kill All, Burn All, Loot All | p. 250 | |
| China and Japan at war | ||
| Rome is more than a military objective | p. 254 | |
| The fall of Rome | ||
| Overpaid, oversexed, and over here | p. 255 | |
| US troops in Britain | ||
| The tide has turned | p. 256 | |
| The D-Day landings | ||
| Dawn brought no relief, and cloud no comfort | p. 264 | |
| V-weapons | ||
| The road of revenge! | p. 266 | |
| Operation Bagration | ||
| It is time that something was done | p. 270 | |
| The plot to kill Hitler | ||
| Warsaw was to be razed to the ground | p. 271 | |
| The Warsaw Uprising | ||
| Nonstop convoys of trucks of all shapes and sizes | p. 272 | |
| The Allies sweep eastward | ||
| I think it is a suicide operation | p. 274 | |
| Operation Market Garden | ||
| It is just a question of crossing the Rhine | p. 275 | |
| Battles at the border | ||
| We must be superhuman to win the war | p. 276 | |
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf | ||
| The daily duty ... is to die | p. 277 | |
| Kamikaze pilots | ||
| One hundred million hearts beating as one | p. 278 | |
| The Japanese home front | ||
| A violent and costly sortie | p. 280 | |
| The Battle of the Bulge | ||
| Endgame 1945 | ||
| The final defeat of the common enemy | p. 286 | |
| The Allies invade the Reich | ||
| Now they are going to reap the whirlwind | p. 287 | |
| The destruction of German cities | ||
| The Eastern Front is like a house of cards | p. 288 | |
| The Soviets push into Germany | ||
| Seize Rangoon before the monsoon | p. 290 | |
| The Allies fight back in Burma | ||
| No human being could then conceive ... what we saw | p. 294 | |
| Liberating the death camps | ||
| We fought for a cause and not for conquest | p. 296 | |
| Last stand in Italy | ||
| The world must know what happened, and never forget | p. 298 | |
| Victory in Europe | ||
| We shall defend this island ... to the end | p. 304 | |
| Japan under siege | ||
| My God, what have we done? | p. 308 | |
| The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | ||
| The skies no longer rain death | p. 312 | |
| Japan surrenders | ||
| For your tomorrow, we gave our today | p. 314 | |
| The cost of war | ||
| Civilization cannot survive these wrongs being repeated | p. 318 | |
| The Nuremberg Trials and denazification | ||
| Preserve in peace what we won in war | p. 320 | |
| Aftermath | ||
| Index | p. 328 | |
| Quote Attributions | p. 335 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 336 |
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