World War II Map by Map/Карта Второй мировой войны

Издание на английском языке
This is the most compelling work of military geography I’ve ever seen. It’s a testament to the titanic scale of the conflict of 1939-1945, which dwarfs all others in world history. The ferocity of World War II- the level of its violence and the cost in human life—almost defies description: up to 80 million deaths; some 20 million on the battlefield; and around three times more than that among civilians caught up in the firestorm of bombing and all-embracing warfare on land, sea, and air. What these maps explain in intricate detail is the mobility and speed with which mechanized armies could sweep across vast areas, and with which warships and aircraft could inflict destruction at ranges never before dreamed of.

Contents
The slide to war 1918–1939
The seeds of war
The legacy of World War I
The League of Nations
Europe of the dictators
Hitler and Nazi Germany
China in turmoil
The Spanish Civil War
The Sino-Japanese War
Germany and Italy expand
Kristallnacht
Countdown in Europe
Germany triumphant 1939–1941
War in Europe
Poland destroyed
The phony war
Battle of the River Plate
The Winter War in Finland
The battle for Norway
The German offensive in the west
Blitzkrieg
Evacuating Dunkirk
The fall of France
Power struggles in Africa
The Battle of Britain
The Blitz
Britain at bay
The U-boat war begins
Sinking of the Bismarck
The end of US neutrality
Lend-Lease
The Mediterranean and Middle East
Italy’s campaigns in Africa
Rommel enters the desert war
The Greco-Italian War
Germany pushes south
The Middle East and eastern Mediterranean
War in the Mediterranean
The Siege of Malta
Germany’s war with the USSR
Operation Barbarossa
Germany and USSR at home
The Siege of Leningrad
German advance on Moscow
Massacres in the east
The relief of Moscow
The widening war 1942
America and Japan go to war
Japanese ambitions
Japan goes to war
Pearl Harbor
Japanese advances
America at war
Japan invades the Philippines
Surrender at Singapore
Japan takes Burma
India in World War II
Japanese setbacks
The Battle of Midway
Guadalcanal
War in Europe and Africa
The new order in Europe
The Holocaust
The Warsaw ghetto
Raids and subversions
Arctic convoys
Rommel’s final advance
Second Battle of El Alamein
Operation Torch
German advance to Stalingrad
Stalingrad under siege
Soviet victory at Stalingrad
Prisoners of war
Turning the tide 1943–1944
German defiance
Victory in the desert
Summit conferences
Sicily and Italy invaded
From Anzio to the Gothic Line
Defeat of the U-boats
Code-breaking
Bombing by day and night
Speer and the war industry
Resistance in Europe
The Battle of Kursk
The Soviets sweep forward
Operation Bagration
The Warsaw uprising
The D-Day landings
Omaha Beach
The Battle of Normandy
V-weapons
The breakout
The plot to kill Hitler
Operation Market Garden
Battles at Germany’s gate
Greece and Yugoslavia
War against Japan
Operation Cartwheel
US amphibious warfare
Island-hopping in the Pacific
Battle for the Marianas
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze tactics
The fightback in Burma
China and Japan at war
Japanese rule in east Asia
Endgame and aftermath 1944–1955
Allied victory in Europe
Battle of the Bulge
Yalta and Potsdam
Crossing the Rhine
Germany loses the air war
The bombing of Dresden
The final Soviet attack
Final struggles in Italy
The fall of Berlin
VE Day
Defeat of Japan
Retaking the Philippines
Iwo Jima
The bombing of Japan
The Battle of Okinawa
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Peace in the Pacific
The aftermath of war
The Iron Curtain
The Chinese Civil War
Decolonization of Asia
The creation of Israel
The price of war
Remembrance
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments