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The Hutchinson atlas of World War Two battle plans : before and after / general editor, Stephen Badsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Strategy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 pages) : maps
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Atlas of World War Two battle plans
- World War Two battle plans
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2000]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Atlas of World War II Battle Plans contrasts 21 World War II battle plans with their actual outcome. Each in-depth essay (on each battle) is complemented by original maps, producing fresh insight into the technical aspects of warfare that drove the last worldwide conflict of the 20"th" century.
- The book is introduced by the editor in an essay that provides a strategic overview of the whole of the war, placing the individual battles in context. The battles are thereafter presented in seven groups of three each, introduced by an essay by the editor on the common theme for each group:
- The themes are: The Armored Blitzkreigs; The Amphibious Landings; The Slogging Matches; The Airpower Factor; The War at Sea; Airborne Assault; and The City Battles.
- Contents:
- The strategy of World War II / Stephen Badsey
- The Fall of France 1940
- blitzkrieg in the west / Sean McKnight
- The Battle of Gazala 1942
- Rommel's masterpiece / Matthew Bennett
- Operation Bagration 1944
- the Soviet sledgehammer / Stephen Walsh
- Anzio 1944
- the stranded whale / Aryeh Nusbacher
- D-Day 1944
- the longest day / Stephen Hart
- Iwo Jima 1945
- hell in the Pacific / Tim Bean
- Operation Barbarossa 1941
- to the gates of Moscow / Duncan Anderson
- The Second Battle of El Alamein 1942
- hitting them for six / Niall Barr
- Kursk 1943
- cauldron of armour / Tim Bean
- The Battle of Britain 1940
- spitfire summer / Lloyd Clark
- The Schweinfurt Raid 1943
- America's worst day / Edmund Yorke
- Monte Cassino 1944
- victory through air power? / Stephen Walsh
- Sink the Bismarck! 1941
- battle in the Atlantic / Andrew Lambert
- Pearl Harbor 1941
- strike from the sea / Ian Stewart
- Operation Pedestal 1942
- the Malta convoy / David Pickup
- The Battle for Crete 1941
- the Pyrrhic victory / Simon Trew
- Operation Market-Garden 1944
- the bridge at Arnhem / Lloyd Clark
- Operation Thursday 1944
- Wingate and the Chindits / Edmund Yorke
- Stalingrad 1942-43
- the city of the sword / Stephen Walsh
- The Battle of Manila 1945
- MacArthur's return / Duncan Anderson
- The Battle of Berlin 1945
- the final battle / Simon Trew.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 15, 2016).
- First published by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers in 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781135962784
- 1135962782
- 9781135962852
- 9781315063249
- Publisher Number:
- 99990107617
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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