History of the Second World War 0330511718, 9780330511711

First published in the year after his death in 1970, Liddell Hart's "History of the Second World War" is

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History of the Second World War
 0330511718,  9780330511711

Table of contents :
Part I
THE PRELUDE
1 How War was Precipitated
2 The Opposing Forces at the Outbreak
 
Part II
THE OUTBREAK (1939-1940)
3 The Overrunning of Poland
4 ‘The Phoney War’
5 The Finnish War
 
Part III
THE SURGE (1940)
6 The Overrunning of Norway
7 The Overrunning of the West
8 The Battle of Britain
9 Counterstroke from Egypt
10 The Conquest of Italian East Africa
 
Part IV
THE SPREAD (1941)
11 The Overrunning of the Balkans and Crete
12 Hitler Turns Against Russia
13 The Invasion of Russia
14 Rommel’s Entry into Africa
15 ‘Crusader’
16 Upsurge in the Far East
17 Japan’s Tide of Conquest
 
Part V
THE TURN (1942)
18 The Tide Turns in Russia
19 Rommel’s High Tide
20 The Tide Turns in Africa
21 ‘Torch’
22 The Race for Tunis
23 The Tide Turns in the Pacific
24 The Battle of the Atlantic
 
Part VI
THE EBB (1943)
25 The Clearance of Africa
26 Re-entry into Europe
27 The Invasion of Italy
28 The German Ebb in Russia
29 The Japanese Ebb in the Pacific
 
Part VII
FULL EBB (1944)
30 Capture of Rome and Second Check in Italy
31 The Liberation of France
32 The Liberation of Russia
33 The Crescendo of Bombing
34 The Liberation of the South-west Pacific and Burma
35 Hitler’s Ardennes Counterstroke
 
Part VIII
FINALE (1945)
36 The Sweep from Vistula to Oder
37 The Collapse of Hitler’s Hold on Italy
38 The Collapse of Germany
39 The Collapse of Japan
 
Part IX
EPILOGUE
 
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT
SUBJECT INDEX
GENERAL INDEX
CLASSIFIED LIST OF AUTHOR’S BOOKS

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