The Second World War /
Antony Beevor.
- London : Phoenix, 2014.
- xvii, 994 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Contenidos : 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 relauched 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 Ichigo Offensive and Leyte Unrealized hopes The Ardennes and Athens From the Vistula to the Oder Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids Yalta, Dresden, Konigsberg Americans on the Elbe The Berlin operation Cities of the dead The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian