The Second World War: Ambitions to NemesisRoutledge, 2004 M07 31 - 304 páginas 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 victory, The Second World War covers all the major theatres and events of the war. 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 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the global ambitions and the global warfare that was the Second World War, making it essential reading for all students of twentieth century world history. |
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... 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 ...
... Japanese expansion in the Pacific 128 7 Defeat of Italy 196 8 German defeat in the east, 1944-45 203 9 German defeat in the west, 1944-45 211 10 Defeat of Japan 1944-45 221 Introduction The Second World War was a war of ambitions List ...
... Japan and Italy. All three nations were determined to expand their national frontiers at the expense of neighbouring states. Hitler and Germany wished to dominate central Europe and to reduce Poland and the USSR to the status of vassal ...
... Japan, Italy and Germany and the different responses of the USSR, Britain, France and the USA as each nation manoeuvred for advantage. The expansion of the war from a European war into a world war is the focus of the themes, 'Outbreak ...
... Riots and a boycott of Japanese goods greeted the decision in China's major cities on 4 May 1919. The European powers also firmly invited Japan to withdraw from Siberia, occupied by Japan in the aftermath Ambition Rising sun.
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14 | |
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Counterchallenge | 33 |
The phoney war | 46 |
Blitzkrieg in the west | 64 |
Battle of Britain | 77 |
Expansion | 91 |
PART 5 | 135 |
PART 6 | 155 |
Kriegsmarine repulsed | 175 |
Pacific reversal | 188 |
Rollback on the Eastern Front | 201 |
Islands | 220 |
The Holocaust | 237 |
Nemesis | 245 |