Henry Steele Commager, Donald L Miller

The Story of World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, this sweeping narrative history covers the entire war and includes new material on the fighting in the Pacific, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atria Books
• Revised, Expanded, & Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 189mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1175g
• ISBN-13: 9780743227186
• ISBN-10: 0743227182
• Artikelnr.: 22248005

Autorenporträt

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College and author of ten books, including Vicksburg, and Masters of the Air, currently being made into a television series by Tom Hanks. He has hosted, coproduced, or served as historical consultant for more than thirty television documentaries and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
PREFACE
1. The Nazi Juggernaut
2. Britain Stands Alone
3. From the Vistula to the Volga
4. The Rising Sun
5. The Hard Way Back
6. The Dead of Tarawa
7. Up the Bloody Boot
8. The Air War
9. The Great Invasion
10. From Normandy to Germany
11. The Battle of the Bulge
12. The Marianas
13. A Marine at Peleliu
14. The Return
15. The B-29s
16. Make Them Remember
17. From the Volga to the Oder
18. Across the Rhine
19. Iwo Jima
20. Okinawa
21. The Setting Sun
22. Victory
NOTES
INDEX