Normal view MARC view ISBD view

The Second World War /Antony Beevor

By: Antony BeevorContributor(s): Antony BeevorMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD. | ;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co. , 2012Description: xii, 863 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9781780225647Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: World War (1939-1945)DDC classification: 940.54 BEE

Contents:

Outbreak of war -- "The wholesale destruction of Poland" -- From phoney war to Blitzkrieg -- The dragon and the rising sun -- Norway and Denmark -- Onslaught in the West -- The fall of France -- Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain -- Reverberations -- Hitler's Balkan war -- Africa and the Atlantic -- Barbarossa -- Rassenkrieg -- The "Grand Alliance" -- The battle for Moscow -- Pearl Harbor -- China and the Philippines -- War across the world -- Wannsee and the SS Archipelago -- Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway -- Defeat in the desert -- Operation Blau : Barbarossa relaunched -- Fighting back in the Pacific -- Stalingrad -- Alamein and Torch -- Southern Russia and Tunisia -- Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis -- Europe behind barbed wire -- The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The Battle of Kursk -- From Sicily to Italy -- Ukraine and the Teheran Conference -- The Shoah by gas -- Italy : the hard underbelly -- The Soviet spring offensive -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The spring of expectations -- Bagration and Normandy -- Berlin, Warsaw and Paris -- The Ichigō Offensive and Leyte -- Unrealized hopes -- The Ardennes and Athens -- From the Vistula to the Oder -- Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids -- Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg -- Americans on the Elbe -- The Berlin operation -- Cities of the dead -- The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan.

Summary: Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings ( 2 )
Title notes ( 2 )
Comments ( 0 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	SNU LIBRARY	940.54 BEE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		25755
Books	SNU LIBRARY	940.54 BEE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		25756

Total holds: 0

Browsing SNU LIBRARY shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	940.5373 STO The war years, 1939-1945	940.54 BEE The Second World War	940.54 BEE The Second World War	940.54 BEE The Second World War	940.54 RAN Churchill's wizards :	940.541 KIL Writing The War	940.5412 KAR Farthest field	Next

Outbreak of war --
"The wholesale destruction of Poland" --
From phoney war to Blitzkrieg --
The dragon and the rising sun --
Norway and Denmark --
Onslaught in the West --
The fall of France --
Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain --
Reverberations --
Hitler's Balkan war --
Africa and the Atlantic --
Barbarossa --
Rassenkrieg --
The "Grand Alliance" --
The battle for Moscow --
Pearl Harbor --
China and the Philippines --
War across the world --
Wannsee and the SS Archipelago --
Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway --
Defeat in the desert --
Operation Blau : Barbarossa relaunched --
Fighting back in the Pacific --
Stalingrad --
Alamein and Torch --
Southern Russia and Tunisia --
Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis --
Europe behind barbed wire --
The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing --
The Pacific, China and Burma --
The Battle of Kursk --
From Sicily to Italy --
Ukraine and the Teheran Conference --
The Shoah by gas --
Italy : the hard underbelly --
The Soviet spring offensive --
The Pacific, China and Burma --
The spring of expectations --
Bagration and Normandy --
Berlin, Warsaw and Paris --
The Ichigō Offensive and Leyte --
Unrealized hopes --
The Ardennes and Athens --
From the Vistula to the Oder --
Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids --
Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg --
Americans on the Elbe --
The Berlin operation --
Cities of the dead --
The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan.

Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment battalions, and to the unspeakable cruelties of the Sino-Japanese War.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.