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A New Illustrated History of World War II: Rare and Unseen Photographs 1939-1945 [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 1x1x1 mm, weight: 1 g, 730 illustrations, (700 colour )
  • Izdošanas datums: 26-Aug-2005
  • Izdevniecība: David & Charles
  • ISBN-10: 0715321021
  • ISBN-13: 9780715321027
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 1x1x1 mm, weight: 1 g, 730 illustrations, (700 colour )
  • Izdošanas datums: 26-Aug-2005
  • Izdevniecība: David & Charles
  • ISBN-10: 0715321021
  • ISBN-13: 9780715321027
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From the invasion of Poland in 1939, to the dropping of 'Little Boy' over Hiroshima and the end of the war, this book is packed with rare photographs and previously unseen archive materials that provide a unique insight into the history of World War II. This book provides a world view of the second industrial war. All major theatres of war are covered, from Europe to America and the Pacific, and all are illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs of the conflict. Featuring propaganda posters from all the major protagonists as well as information on military tactics, heads of state and significant events this is a complete reference for anyone interested in World War II.
The impossible peace
11(14)
The conditions of the victors
12(1)
The geography of Europe
13(1)
The challenge of economic revival
14(2)
The rise of Nazism
16(1)
Tensions in Europe
17(1)
Japanese aggression in Asia
18(1)
The failure of diplomacy
19(1)
The limits of appeasement
20(5)
The League of Nations
12(6)
The Sino-Japanese war
18(3)
The Spanish Civil War
21(2)
The war in Abyssinia
23(2)
The outbreak of conflict
25(24)
Italy and Germany
26(2)
Great Britain and Poland
28(1)
The attitude of the United States
29(2)
Why die for Danzig?
31(1)
The Nazi--Soviet pact
32(1)
French and British passivity
33(3)
The invasion of Poland
36(2)
Between war and peace
38(3)
The Russian invasion of Finland
41(3)
The time factor
44(3)
The phoney war
47(2)
The Pact of Steel
27(3)
German rearmament
30(4)
The Molotov--Ribbentrop Pact
34(2)
The Blitzkrieg
36(1)
War archives: The British fleet on manoeuvres
37(2)
Adolf Hitler
39(1)
Scapa Flow
40(2)
Tanks
42(3)
Submarines
45(1)
The Graf Spee
46(3)
The capitulation of France
49(24)
The occupation of Denmark and Norway
50(3)
The collapse of Belgium and Holland
53(2)
The French debacle
55(1)
The Dunkirk pocket
56(1)
The agony of a great power
57(2)
The humiliation of Compiegne
59(1)
Italy's entry into the war
59(2)
The Blitz
61(1)
Britain stands alone
62(2)
The Vichy regime
64(1)
The Tripartite Pact
64(1)
America, the `arsenal of democracy'
65(2)
`Breaking the kidneys' of Greece
67(2)
The isolation of the Soviet Union
69(4)
Winston Churchill
51(1)
The Maginot Line
52(2)
Operation `Sickle Cut'
54(4)
Codename `Sea Lion'
58(2)
The Battle of Britain
60(2)
Radar
62(1)
Henri-Philippe Petain, Charles de Gaulle
63(3)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
66(2)
Italy's path to war
68(3)
War archives: The London Blitz
71(2)
From Tobruk to the Atlantic
73(24)
The war in the desert
74(1)
The defence of the British Empire
75(1)
The `Free French' against Vichy
76(1)
The Afrika Korps enter the fray
77(4)
The British 8th Army fights back
81(3)
The German invasion of the Balkans
84(2)
The `Lend-Lease' Act
86(4)
The Battle of the Atlantic
90(2)
The Allied conquest of North Africa
92(5)
Cape Matapan
75(3)
Erwin Rommel
78(2)
Bernard Law Montgomery
80(2)
El Alamein
82(3)
The airborne assault on Crete
85(2)
The Bismarck
87(1)
Donitz's `wolf packs'
88(3)
Enigma
91(2)
War archives: The submarine war
93(4)
Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor
97(24)
Hitler's objectives
98(2)
The Blitzkrieg in the East
100(3)
Saving `Mother Russia'
103(2)
The Soviets regain the initiative
105(4)
Japan and the Far East
109(1)
Japan and the Soviet Union
110(2)
American pressure on Japan
112(1)
World war
113(4)
The Japanese overrun the Pacific
117(4)
Heinz Guderian, Erich von Manstein
99(3)
Operation `Barbarossa'
102(2)
Joseph Stalin
104(1)
Purges in the Red Army
105(2)
War archives: Civilian massacres
107(1)
The sieges of Moscow and Leningrad
108(2)
Isoroku Yamamoto
110(4)
Japanese politicians and military leaders
114(2)
Pearl Harbor: a Japanese triumph?
116(2)
Aircraft carriers
118(3)
Europe in the Nazi grip
121(24)
The Germanization of Europe
122(2)
The requirements of a prolonged war
124(1)
Mass forced labour
125(2)
The fate of the `subhumans'
127(1)
The Wannsee Conference
128(3)
The concentration camp system
131(3)
Forms of collaboration
134(3)
The Reich's satellite states
137(2)
The German summer campaign
139(3)
The first German setbacks
142(3)
The Nazi empire
123(7)
The uprising in the Warsaw ghetto
130(2)
The symbol of genocide
132(4)
Vichy France
136(5)
War archives: Prisoners in the death camps
141(4)
The war in the Pacific
145(24)
The British collapse in Malaya
146(1)
The fall of Burma
147(2)
The Americans leave the Philippines
149(2)
The defeat of the Allies in the Java Sea
151(1)
The pinnacle of Japanese triumphs
152(1)
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
153(1)
Japanese weaknesses
154(3)
An uncertain strategy
157(2)
Japan's imperial dream
159(2)
Long-range war in the Coral Sea
161(1)
Five minutes at Midway
162(3)
The heroism of the Marines at Guadalcanal
165(2)
A further British defeat in Burma
167(2)
India in the war
148(2)
Douglas MacArthur
150(1)
The Zero
151(3)
Prisoners of the Japanese
154(1)
War archives: Life on an aircraft carrier
155(2)
The Pacific war in the cinema
157(3)
The `Flying Tigers'
160(2)
`Magic'
162(2)
Chester W. Nimitz
164(2)
The jeep
166(3)
Allies on the offensive
169(24)
Final objective: `unconditional surrender'
170(2)
Final objective: `total victory'
172(2)
The surrender of Paulus at Stalingrad
174(2)
The battle for Kharkov
176(1)
A colossal tank battle
176(3)
Italy after defeat in Russia
179(3)
The collapse of the Fascist regime
182(1)
The massacre of Cephalonia
183(3)
The Gustav Line
186(1)
The partisan struggle in Yugoslavia
187(2)
The bombing of Germany
189(4)
Katyusha rocket launcher
176(2)
Stalin's generals
178(3)
Italy from 25 July to 8 September
181(3)
The Italian Social Republic
184(1)
War archives: The Allies in Italy
185(2)
Tito
187(1)
British and American bombers
188(2)
The Teheran conference
190(3)
Leningrad, Rome, Paris, Warsaw
193(26)
The Red Army on the offensive
194(1)
The collapse of the German southern front
195(1)
The Russian summer offensive
196(4)
The Warsaw uprising
200(1)
The situation in the Balkans
201(1)
The Italian campaign
202(2)
The liberation of Rome
204(3)
The Allied invasion of France
207(4)
De Gaulle in Paris
211(2)
On the borders of the Reich
213(1)
The German counter-stroke in the Ardennes
213(6)
Women in the war
197(2)
The secret war: spies
199(4)
George S. Patton, Mark W. Clark, Omar N. Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower
203(5)
Operation `Overlord'
208(2)
D-Day and the cinema
210(3)
The Hitler assassination attempt
213(2)
War archives: Collaborators
215(2)
Japan on the retreat
217(2)
Greater East Asia
219(22)
A gigantic logistical problem
219(2)
Amphibious operations in the Pacific
221(2)
Naval operations and the capture of the Marianas
223(1)
The recapture of the Philippines
224(1)
The Japanese graveyard in the Gulf of Leyte
225(3)
The Chinese tangle
228(4)
Imphal: a British fightback
232(2)
The recapture of Rangoon
234(1)
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
235(2)
Too high a price
237(2)
Air raids on Japan
239(2)
Tomoyuki Yamashita
226(3)
Kamikaze
229(2)
Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek
231(2)
War archives: Prisoners
233(8)
From Yalta to Hiroshima
241(24)
The future of Germany
242(1)
The war of the partisans
243(3)
The Russians at the gateway to East Prussia
246(2)
The exodus from the eastern territories
248(1)
The Yalta conference
249(1)
The destruction of Dresden
250(1)
Germany on the verge of collapse
250(2)
The Allies cross the Rhine
252(1)
The final assault on Berlin
252(2)
The liberation of Italy
254(2)
The end of the war in Europe
256(1)
The Potsdam conference
257(2)
Japanese willingness to surrender
259(1)
The beginning of the atomic age
260(1)
The end of the war
261(4)
The home front in the countries at war
245(2)
Propaganda
247(8)
Harry S. Truman
255(5)
The Manhattan Project
260(2)
War archives: The radioactive holocaust
262(3)
The legacy of the conflict
265(12)
The impact of `total war'
266(2)
The new international system
268(4)
The territorial shape of Europe
272(1)
The two blocs and reconstruction
273(1)
Decolonialization and the Third World
274(3)
War archives: Victors and vanquished
269(2)
The Nuremberg war trials
271(2)
The Tokyo trials
273(4)
Chronology of events 277(9)
Index of names 286(2)
Photographic references 288