Clear,concise yet comprehensive,World War II in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the greatest conflict in human history.From its causes to its aftermath,this book details in 200 mini-essays every key event of the war,including the rise of Hitler,the Dunkirk evacuation,The Battle of Britain,Pearl Harbor,Midway and Iwo Jima,the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad,the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,D-Day and the fall of Berlin,and much much more.Covers all aspects of World War II: origins and politics; major battles; great leaders; weapons and technology; civilian life and atrocities; turning points and surrenders; and the reverberations of the war through history. Illustrated with 200 contemporary photographs,images and maps.Includes entries on: The Path to War; The Versailles Treaty; The Spanish Civil War; Mussolini and the rise of Fascism; Adolf Hitler,Winston Churchill,FDR and Joseph Stalin; The Sino-Japanese War; The Blitz; U-boat warfare and Enigma; The Desert War; Operation Barbarossa; The Battle of Moscow; Resistance and collaboration; The Final Solution; Colditz; Coral Sea and Guadalcanal; The Dambusters; The bombing of Dresden; Alamein; Kursk; Montgomery,Zhukov,Rommel and Eisenhower; Operation Overlord; The liberation of Paris; The battle of the Bulge; The Yalta Conference,The Berlin bunker; The battle for Okinawa; Kamikazes; The atomic bomb; Casualties of war;War crimes trials and The Cold War.
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781787477292Number of pages: 416Weight: 360 gDimensions: 126 x 128 x 28 mm
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