World War II  8721

• Introduction   Richard Overy

The Path to War 1919-39

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• The Rise of Extremism
• Post-War Europe
  • [Mussolini and the Fascists]
  • [Hitler and Nazism]
  • [Anti-Semitism in Germany]
• Japanese Imperialism
  • [Japanese Society]
  • [The Chinese Civil Wars]
  • [The Rape of Nanking]
• Rearmament and Expansion
  • [European Rearmament]
  • [Spanish Civil War]
  • [The Free City of Danzig]

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War Begins in Europe 1939-40

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• Blitzkrieg and Total War
• First Conquests
  • [Stalin and the Soviet Union]
  • [Military Strength of the Combatants in 1939]
  • [The Maginot Line]
  • [Fighting in the Snow]
• German invasion of the West
  • [Winston Churchill]
  • [Blitzkrieg Tactics]
  • [Evacuation from Dunkirk]
• Britain in Peril
  • [Radar]
  • [The Opposing Air Forces]
• The Home Front in Western Europe
  • [Civilian Evacuations]
  • [Internment of Civilians]
  • [Radio Propaganda]
  • [The Treatment of Jews in Europe, 1939-41]

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Germany Triumphant 1940-41

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• The Führer in Command
• The War at Sea
  • [Enigma and Ultra]
  • [The Sinking of the Bismarck]
• Campaigns in Africa and the Middle East
  • [The Island of Malta under Siege]
  • [The Return of the Emperor]
  • [Erwin Rommel]
• The Balkan Campaign
  • [Airborne Forces]
• Operation Barbarossa
  • [Heinz Guderian]
  • [Einsatzgruppen atrocities]

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The War Becomes Global 1941-42

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• New Theatres of War
• The USA Joins the War
  • [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]
  • [Yamamoto Isoroku]
  • [Japanese and US Carrier Planes]
  • [Magic: Cracking the Japanese Codes]
• Japanese Onslaught
  • [Tojo Hideki]
  • [Nimitz and Macarthur]
  • [The Bataan Death March]
• The Home Front in the USA and Japan
  • [Women on the US Home Front]
  • [Japanese Internment]
• Wartime Cinema
• From Moscow to Stalingrad
  • [Georgi Zhukov]
  • [Red Army Infantry Weapons]

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The Initiative Changes Hands 1942-43

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• The Tide Begins to Turn
• Changing Fortunes on the Eastern Front
  • [Soviet Intelligence]
  • [The Siege of Leningrad]
  • [The Soviet Home Front]
• The Holocaust
• The Axis Defeated in North Africa
  • [Bernard Law Montgomery]
  • [Armour and Anti-Tanks used in the Desert War]
  • [The Free French]
• The U-Boat campaign in the Atlantic
• The Pacific War in the Balance
  • [Australians in New Guinea]

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The Axis on the Defensive 1943-44

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• The Beginning of the End
• Recapture of the Western Soviet Union
  • [Erich von Manstein]
  • [Soviet and German Armour]
  • [Soviet Partisans]
• The Invasion of Italy
  • [Entertaining the Troops]
• War in the Air
  • [Finding the Target]
  • [The Air War over Germany]
• American Offensives in the Pacific
  • [Amphibious Landings]
  • [Antibiotics]

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The Allies’ Great Offensives 1944-45

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• The Axis in Retreat
• Advance into Northwest Europe
  • [Dwight D Eisenhower]
  • [The “Funnies”]
  • [Infantry Weapons on the Western Front]
  • [Bomb Plot Against Hitler]
  • [The Resistance and the SOE]
  • [V-Weapons]
  • [George S Patton]
  • Balkan Resistance
    • [Operations in the Dodecanese]
    • [Tito (Josip Broz)]
• Advance into Poland
  • [The Warsaw Uprising]
• Japan Near the Brink
  • [The Indian National Army]
  • [Japanese Shipping Losses]

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The Final Battles 1945

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• The Defeat of the Axis
• The Road to Berlin
  • [The Bombing of Dresden]
  • [The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff]
  • [Germany in 1945]
• The End of the Reich
  • [The Discovery of Bergen-Belsen]
  • [The Death of Mussolini]
  • [Hitler’s Last Days]
• Japan Surrenders
  • [Kamikaze Pilots]
  • [Japanese Prisoners of War]
  • [Into the Nuclear Age]

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A New World 1945-49

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• Rebuilding a Shattered World
• The Legacy of War
  • [The Nuremberg Trials]
  • [War Losses]
  • [Berlin Blockade]
  • [Chinese Civil War]

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In Memoriam

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• World War II Battlefield Memorials and Cemeteries around the World

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