The Second World War (169 page)
The Japanese surrender on the USS
Missouri
, 2 September 1945
Homeless civilians on Okinawa
CONTENTS
Welcome
Dedication
Introduction
1. The Outbreak of War
2. ‘The Wholesale Destruction of Poland’
3. From Phoney War to Blitzkrieg
4. The Dragon and the Rising Sun
5. Norway and Denmark
6. Onslaught in the West
7. The Fall of France
8. Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain
9. Reverberations
19. Wannsee and the SS Archipelago
20. Japanese Occupation and the Battle of Midway
22. Operation Blau–Barbarossa Relaunched
23. Fighting Back in the Pacific
26. Southern Russia and Tunisia
27. Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis
29. The Battle of the Atlantic and Strategic Bombing
30. The Pacific, China and Burma
33. Ukraine and the Teheran Conference
36. The Soviet Spring Offensive
37. The Pacific, China and Burma
38. The Spring of Expectations
41. The Ichig
Offensive and Leyte
44. From the Vistula to the Oder
45. Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Raids
46. Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg
50. The Atomic Bombs and the Subjugation of Japan
Acknowledgements
By the same author
Illustrations and Maps
Notes
Photo Insert
Copyright
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