The Second World War: Ambitions to Nemesis

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Psychology Press, 2004 - 290 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
* the outbreak of the war in Poland
* the 'Phoney War'
* Blitzkrieg, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain
* Pearl Harbour
* 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, making it essential reading for all students of twentieth century world history.

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List of maps
1
PART
4
PART
14
Fascist Italy
17
Counterchallenge
33
The phoney war
46
Blitzkrieg in the west
64
Battle of Britain
77
Pearl Harbor
136
PART 6
152
Kriegsmarine repulsed
175
Pacific reversal
188
Rollback on the Eastern Front
201
Nemesis
245
The bomb
260
Islands
282

Barbarossa
97
Final Solution
110

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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).

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