Evan Mawdsley is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His extensive teaching experience at Glasgow included a specialist course on the grand strategy of World War II. He is the author of a number of recent important books and articles on World War II, including Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War (2006/2015), December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a New World War (2009), and The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II (2019). He was also general editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of the Second World War (2016).
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The World in 1937
2. Japan and China, 1937-1940
3. Hitler's border wars, 1938-1939
4. Germany re-fights World War I, 1939-1940
5. Wars of ideology, 1941-1942
6. The Red Army versus the Wehrmacht, 1942-1944
7. Japan's lunge for empire, 1941-1942
8. Defending the perimeter: Japan, 1942-1944
9. The 'World Ocean' and allied victory, 1939-1945
10. The European periphery, 1940-1944
11. Wearing down Germany, 1942-1944
12. Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
13. End and beginning in Asia, 1945
14. Conclusion
Further reading
Notes
Index.
