Bradley Lightbody

The Second World War

Ambitions to Nemesis

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Produktbeschreibung

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 extinction, The Second World War covers all the major theatres and events. 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 Harbor - 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. It reflects on the immense social, economic and political impact of the war and bears witness to the human cost of the most destructive war in world history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 177mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780415224048
• ISBN-10: 0415224047
• Artikelnr.: 21930298

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