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The atlas of World War II / Dr. John Pimlott ; foreword by Alan Bullock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pimlott, John, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Maps.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Maps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Pictorial works.
- Military campaigns.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Atlases.
- Maps.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- First Skyhorse Publishing edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2022.
- Summary:
- The Atlas of World War II traces the course of the conflict chronologically by showing each major campaign as a full-color map, further illustrated by archive action pictures. Skillfully bringing to life the human experience of war with eyewitness accounts of the struggle, this book presents the political and strategic conditions that led to the war, offering a unique insight into military operations and tactics.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE INTER-WAR PERIOD 1919
- 1939
- The Peace Settlement 1919
- 1923
- The Depression 1929
- Communism and Fascism 1917
- 1934
- Sino-Japanese Rivalry September 1931
- December 1941
- The Road to War in Europe March 1935
- August 1939
- European Armed Forces in 1939
- pt. II THE AXIS ASCENDANT
- September 1939
- June 1942
- The Greater German Reich by Alan Bullock
- Hitler's Europe, November 1942 / Alan Bullock
- Russo-German Invasion of Poland October 1939
- The Winter War November 1939
- March 1940
- The Phoney War September 1939
- April 1940
- Battle of the Atlantic September 1939
- Denmark and Norway April
- June 1940
- Blitzkrieg in the West May
- The Battle of Britain July
- October 1940
- The Blitz September 1940
- May 1941
- Bombing of Germany September 1940
- February 1942
- Battle of the Atlantic June 1941
- War in East Africa June 1940
- November 1941
- The Western Desert June 1940
- February 1941
- The Conquest of Greece April
- May 1941
- The Western Desert March
- June 1941
- Iraq, Syria and Iran April
- September 1941
- Mediterranean Naval War June 1940
- November 1942
- The Western Desert June
- The Western Desert January
- Operation Barbarossa I June
- August 1941
- Operation Barbarossa II August
- October 1941
- Operation Typhoon October
- The Battle of Moscow December 1941
- Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941
- Malaya and the Philippines December 1941
- May 1942
- Dutch East Indies January
- Burma January
- The Secret War
- pt. III TURNING THE TIDE June 1942
- July 1943
- Battle of the Atlantic June 1942
- May 1943
- Bombing of Germany February 1942
- October 1942
- The Western Desert October 1942
- January 1943
- North-West Africa November 1942
- February 1943
- North-West Africa March-May 1943
- German Advance on the Caucasus June
- September 1942
- Battle for Stalingrad September 1942
- The Siege of Leningrad September 1941
- January 1944
- Battle for Kharkov January
- March 1943
- Battle of Kursk July 1943
- Coral Sea and Midway May
- June 1942
- Guadalcanal August 1942
- New Guinea/New Georgia July 1942
- August 1943
- Burma September 1942
- War Economies of the Major Powers
- pt. IV ALLIED OFFENSIVES July 1943
- December 1944
- Sicily July
- Invasion of Italy September
- December 1943
- Monte Cassino and Anzio January
- May 1944
- Advance to the Gothic Line June
- Russian Counter-offensives July
- Leningrad and the Baltic States January
- October 1944
- The Ukraine December 1943
- Resistance in the East June
- August 1944
- The Balkahs August
- Bombing of Germany August 1943
- April 1944
- Planning Overlord March 1941
- D-Day 6 June 1944
- Battle for Normandy June
- July 1944
- Falaise and Liberation of Paris August 1944
- Operation Dragoon August
- September 1944
- Stalemate in the Fall September
- November 1944
- The Gilberts and Marshalls November 1943
- February 1944
- Mariana and Palau Islands June
- Battle of the Philippine Sea June 1944
- Leyte and Leyte Gulf October
- War in China April
- Burma November 1943
- The Weapons of War
- pt. V THE ALLIES VICTORIOUS December 1944
- September 1945
- Battle of the Bulge December 1944
- January 1945
- Advance to the Rhine February
- March 1945
- Crossing the Rhine March 1945
- Bombing of Germany August 1944
- May 1945
- The End in Italy April
- Advance in Germany April
- The Vistula-Oder Campaign January
- February 1945
- Clearing the Balkans December 1944
- Berlin April
- May 1945
- Liberation of Burma November 1944
- August 1945
- Liberation of the Philippines January
- Iwo Jima and Okinawa February
- June 1945
- Bombing of Japan June 1944
- Soviet Invasion of Manchuria August 1945
- The Legacy of War.
- Notes:
- Includes select bibliographic references (page 224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781510756410
- 1510756418
- OCLC:
- 1236260218
- Publisher Number:
- 99992925262
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