| Description |
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
Illustrated account of the major events associated with the Second World War. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: (page 123). |
| Contents |
Internet links -- World at war -- Rise of the dictators -- Fragile democracies -- Hitler's Germany -- Road to war -- War begins in Europe: War breaks out -- Fall of western Europe -- Battle for Britain -- Germany invades eastern Europe -- European war to world war: Operation Barbarossa -- Siege of Leningrad -- Pearl Harbor -- Japan's new empire -- Underground resistance -- Home front -- War in North Africa -- Life in occupied territories -- Battle of the Atlantic -- Propaganda -- Holocaust -- Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Tide turns: Coral Sea and midway -- Battle of Stalingrad -- Death of an army -- Secret war -- Kursk -- Allied bombing in Europe -- Bombs -- Bombers -- Battle of the Titans -- Women on the front line -- Island fighting -- Entertaining the troops -- Special forces -- Italian campaign -- War in the Pacific -- Defeat of Germany: Preparing for D-Day -- D-Day landings -- Hitler--the military commander -- Fighting for France -- Mother of invention -- Special relationships -- Germany's ill-fated cities -- Germany's eastern border -- Into Germany from the west -- Fall of Berlin -- Defeat of Japan: Iwo Jima and Okinawa -- Manhattan project -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- World after the war: End of the war -- Aftermath of the war -- War and the 20th century -- War on film and TV -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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| Added Title |
Second World War |
| ISBN |
0794510442 trade bdg. |
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9780794510442 trade bdg. |
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9780746062067 hardback |
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0746062060 hardback |
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1580869106 trade bdg. |
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9781580869102 trade bdg. |
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