The Second World War / John Keegan.

ISBN: 0670823597
ISBN: 9780670823598
Physical Description: 608 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st American edition
Publisher: New York : Viking, 1990.
Copyright: &copy;1989

Summary:

A chronological history of each theater of the war, analyzing five battles for their distinctive kind of warfare of the period.

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General Note:	First published London : Hutchinson, c1989.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-598) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Every man a soldier -- Fomenting world war -- The war in the West 1940-1943. The triumph of Blitzkrieg ; Air battle: the Battle of Britain ; War supply and the Battle of the Atlantic -- The war in the East 1941-1943. Hitler's strategic dilemma ; Securing the eastern springboard ; Airborne battle: Crete ; Barbarossa ; War production ; Crimean summer, Stalingrad winter -- The war in the Pacific 1941-1943. Tojo's strategic dilemma ; From Pearl Harbor to Midway ; Carrier battle: Midway ; Occupation and repression ; The war for the islands -- The war in the west 1943-1945. Churchill's strategic dilemma ; Three wars in Africa ; Italy and the Balkans ; Overlord ; Tank battle: Falaise ; Strategic bombing ; The Ardennes and the Rhine -- The war in the East 1943-1945. Stalin's strategic dilemma ; Kursk and the recapture of western Russia ; Resistance and espionage ; The Vistula and the Danube ; City battle: the siege of Berlin -- The war in the Pacific 1943-1945. Roosevelt's strategic dilemma ; Japan's defeat in the south ; Amphibious battle: Okinawa ; Super-weapons and the defeat of Japan ; The legacy of the Second World War.