Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• SECTION 1 1919 - 1939
• THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
• The Treaty of Versailles
• The League of Nations and Disarmament
• The Rise of the Dictators
• Japanese Militarism
• Dress Rehearsals - Abyssinia and Spain
• Lebensraum and the Path to War
• SECTION 2 SEPTEMBER 1939 - JUNE 1940
• JUST A EUROPEAN WAR
• Military Strengths
• Poland
• The Russo-Finnish War
• The Phoney War
• The War at Sea
• Norway
• Hitler Attacks West
• The Fall of France
• SECTION 3 JULY 1940 - JUNE 1941
• BRITAIN ALONE
• Britain's Plight
• Operation 'Sealion'
• The Battle of Britain
• The Blitz
• The Battle of the Atlantic: The first Happy Time
• Early Italian Successes in North and East Africa
• British Counter-Stroke in North Africa
• The Conquest of Italian East Africa
• Italo British Naval War
• Enter Rommel
• Hitler Looks East
• Balkan Interlude
• Wavell Under Pressure
• SECTION 4 JUNE 1941 - DECEMBER 1941
• HITLER TURNS EAST
• The Invasion of Russian
• Ever Deeper East
• Deepening US Involvement
• British Offensive in North Africa
• Before the Gates of Moscow
• Japan Threatens
• Day of Infamy
• SECTION 5 DECEMBER 1941 - JUNE 1942
• THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
• Germany First
• Japanese Onrush
• The Fall of Malaya, Singapore and Java
• Bataan and Corregidor
• Burma and the Indian Ocean
• The Battle of the Atlantic The Second Happy Time
• Rommel Attacks Once More
• Malta Besieged
• Rommel's Third Offensive
• Enter Bomber Harris
• Australia Under Threat
• Midway
• SECTION 6 JULY 1942 - DECEMBER 1942
• TIDE ON THE TURN
• Second Front Now!
• Allied Aid To Russia
• German Drive into the Caucasus
• The Landings on Guadalcanal
• Rommel Repulsed
• Desert Victory
• Operation 'Torch'
• The Dash to Tunis
• Stalingrad - Phase 1
• SECTION 7 JANUARY 1943 AUGUST 1943
• SLOWLY BUT SURELY
• Blueprint for Victory
• The End at Stalingrad
• Stalin Keeps up the Pressure
• Tunisia
• Atlantic Victory
• The Mounting of Pointblank
• Burma - first steps back
• The First Chindit Expedition
• The Aleutians and New Georgia
• Kursk
• Sicily
• SECTION 8 AUGUST 1943 TO JANUARY 1944
• EUROPE RE-ENTERED
• Conference Summer
• The Italian Landings
• The Russian Autumn Offensive
• Stilwell and China
• Pacific drives
• Objective Rome
• The Relief of Leningrad
• Crescendo of Bombing
• SECTION 9 FEBRUARY 1944 - SEPTEMBER 1944
• LIBERATION
• Planning for Overlord
• Cassino and Rome
• Tito and Yugoslavia
• Japanese Offensive in Burman
• On Towards the Phillipines
• The Normandy Landings
• The Fighting in Normandy
• Securing the Arctic -Convoy Route
• German Miracle Weapons
• The Russian Summer 1944 Offensive
• SECTION 10 SEPTEMBER 1944 TO FEBRUARY 1945
• CLOSING IN
• The Second Quebec Conference
• Finland and the Balkands
• Leyte Gulf
• Luzon
• Montgomery's Gamble
• Closing up to the German Border
• Storming the Gothic Line
• The Greek Civil War
• On the Road to Mandalay
• SECTION 11 FEBRUARY 1945 - MAY 1945
• VICTORY IN EUROPE
• The Yalta Conferencve
• The Rhine Crossings
• Pomerania and Vienna
• Final Offensive from the West
• The Battle for Berlin
• The End in Italy
• The End in Europe
• The End in Burman
• SECTION 12 JUNE 1945 - SEPTEMBER 1945
• THE ULTIMATE WEAPON
• The Potsdam Conference
• The Development of the Atomic bomb
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Japan Surrenders
• SECTION 13 1945 TO THE PRESENT
• THE LEGACY
• The Cost of War
• War Crimes Trials
• Post War Problems
• FURTHER READING
• INDEX