Bradley Lightbody (Dewsbury College, West Yorkshire, UK)

The Second World War

Ambitions to Nemesis

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU20561
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780415224055
• ISBN-10: 0415224055
• Artikelnr.: 13780366

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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