The Second World War : a people's history /

World War II surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experienced till then, and from the psychological traumas of loss, of imprisonment and genocide, and permanent exile from ho...

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Main Author: Bourke, Joanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Declaration of War in Europe
  • Occupied Europe
  • Battle of the Atlantic
  • War in China, Burma, and India
  • War in South-East Asia and the Pacific
  • Italy, the Balkans, and the desert
  • The eastern front
  • The Holocaust
  • Liberating Europe
  • Hiroshima
  • Aftermath
  • The memory of war
  • Chronology.