World War II : a new history /
Evan Mawdsley.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xi, 483 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction - 1. The world in 1937 - 2. Japan and China, 1937-1940 - 3. Hitler's border wars, 1938-1939 - 4. Germany re-fights World War I, 1939-1940 - 5. Wars of ideology, 1941-1942 - 6. The Red Army versus the Wehrmacht, 1941-1944 - 7. Japan's lunge for empire, 1941-1942 - 8. Defending the perimeter: Japan, 1942-1944 - 9. The 'world ocean' and Allied victory, 1939-1945 - 10. The European periphery, 1940-1944 - 11. Wearing down Germany, 1942-1944 - 12. Victory in Europe, 1944-1945 -- 13. End and beginning in Asia, 1945 - Conclusion.