The Second World War in Europe: Second Edition

✍ Scribed by S.P. Mackenzie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
The Second World War in Europe
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Chronology
Who’s Who
Glossary
Maps
Part One Background
1 The Road to War
The Origins of the War
Preparing for War
Part Two The Second World War
2 The Flow of Blitzkrieg, 1939–42
Campaigns East and West, 1939–40
Strategies for Survival and Expansion, 1940–41
The Limits of Blitzkrieg, 1941–42
3 Peoples at War
Economies and Societies at War
Barbarism and the Holocaust
Collaboration and Resistance
4 Conducting War
Technology and Intelligence
Alliances and Strategy
Strategic Bombing and the U-Boat War
5 The Ebb of Blitzkrieg, 1942–45
The Changing Balance of Fortune, 1942–43
Success and Failure South and East, 1943–44
Closing the Ring, 1944–45
Part Three Assessment
6 The End of the War and After
Costs and the Division of Europe
Historical Debates
Winning and Losing
Part Four Documents
1 Britain goes to war
2 The mood in Berlin
3 Blitzkrieg 1940
4 Churchill’s finest hour
5 De Gaulle and resistance
6 Stalin and Barbarossa
7 Italo-German relations
8 Boffins at war
9 Stalingrad diary
10 The Red Army
11 Himmler on race
12 Goebbels and terror propaganda
13 Unconditional surrender
14 Workers’ attitudes in wartime Britain
15 Allied production operations compared
16 Speer on Allied bombing
17 Under the bombs
18 Death of a B-17
19 U-boat under attack
20 On being shelled
21 Goebbels on the turning of the tide
22 Ambush in Sicily
23 Summary justice on the Eastern front
24 Allied vs German tanks
25 Airpower over Normandy
26 Hitler in command
27 The surrender of Berlin
28 The commandant of Auschwitz interviewed
Guide to Further Reading
References
Index
Plate