The Second World War (169 page)

The Japanese surrender on the USS
Missouri
, 2 September 1945

Homeless civilians on Okinawa

CONTENTS

Welcome

Dedication

Introduction

1. The Outbreak of War

2. ‘The Wholesale Destruction of Poland’

3. From Phoney War to Blitzkrieg

4. The Dragon and the Rising Sun

5. Norway and Denmark

6. Onslaught in the West

7. The Fall of France

8. Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain

9. Reverberations

10. Hitler’s Balkan War

11. Africa and the Atlantic

12. Barbarossa

13.
Rassenkrieg

14. The ‘Grand Alliance’

15. The Battle for Moscow

16. Pearl Harbor

17. China and the Philippines

18. War across the World

19. Wannsee and the SS Archipelago

20. Japanese Occupation and the Battle of Midway

21. Defeat in the Desert

22. Operation Blau–Barbarossa Relaunched

23. Fighting Back in the Pacific

24. Stalingrad

25. Alamein and Torch

26. Southern Russia and Tunisia

27. Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis

28. Europe behind Barbed Wire

29. The Battle of the Atlantic and Strategic Bombing

30. The Pacific, China and Burma

31. The Battle of Kursk

32. From Sicily to Italy

33. Ukraine and the Teheran Conference

34. The Shoah by Gas

35. Italy–The Hard Underbelly

36. The Soviet Spring Offensive

37. The Pacific, China and Burma

38. The Spring of Expectations

39. Bagration and Normandy

40. Berlin, Warsaw and Paris

41. The Ichig
Offensive and Leyte

42. Unrealized Hopes

43. The Ardennes and Athens

44. From the Vistula to the Oder

45. Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Raids

46. Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg

47. Americans on the Elbe

48. The Berlin Operation

49. Cities of the Dead

50. The Atomic Bombs and the Subjugation of Japan

Acknowledgements

By the same author

Illustrations and Maps

Notes

Photo Insert

Copyright

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