The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II

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Penguin, 2004 - 398 pages
WWII began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalition but eventually widened to include most of the nations of the world. It ended in 1945, leaving a new world order dominated by the United States and the USSR.

This book features updated and expanded coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It will include details about major battles on land, in the air, and on the sea - starting with Hitler's rise to power and his goal of European conquest; to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbour; to the decisive battles such as D-Day and the Battle of Midway, which turned the tides of the war toward the Allies.

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Contents

I
3
II
13
III
27
IV
41
VI
51
VII
63
VIII
65
X
75
XXII
207
XXIII
219
XXIV
231
XXV
233
XXVI
253
XXVII
269
XXVIII
281
XXIX
293

XI
91
XII
101
XIII
111
XIV
125
XV
127
XVI
139
XVII
151
XVIII
165
XIX
183
XX
185
XXI
197
XXX
309
XXXI
311
XXXII
327
XXXIII
347
XXXIV
361
XXXV
363
XXXVI
365
XXXVII
375
XXXVIII
383
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Mitchell Bard, Ph.D., authored Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps, among other books. The executive director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, he is also the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Middle East Conflict, Second Edition.

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