TY - BOOK AU - Mawdsley,Evan TI - World War II: a new history SN - 9780521845922 (hbk.) AV - D 743 M462w 2009 U1 - 940.53 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 KW - Guerra Mundial, 1939-1945 N1 - 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 ER -