The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of The Second World War

by Folly, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781403902856
• ISBN10: 1403902852
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Palgrave Concise Atlas of World War II presents a wide range of chapters on the military campaigns, major political developments, frontier changes, international conferences and alliances of World War II, together with chapters on the home fronts in the major participating nations and in occupied Europe and Asia (the latter covering, for instance, resistance, population movements and genocide). Chapters covering the military campaigns also focus on recent discoveries, in particular the role of signals intelligence and code-breaking. The result is a comprehensive atlas covering all the major aspects of the war and presenting the military events in their full context.

Author Biography

Martin Folly is Lecturer in History, Brunel University, Middlesex.

Table of Contents

Preface and note on the maps	ix
The Uneasy Peace
The Road to War in Asia
The Road to War in Europe
The Fall of Poland
Soviet Expansion 1939--41
The `Phoney War' and the Invasion of Norway
The Fall of the Low Countries and France 1940
The Battle of Britain and `the Blitz'
German Europe 1940--41
The War in Africa and the Middle East
Western Desert Campaigns 1940--41
The German Invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece
The Invasion of the USSR 1941
The Defence of Moscow
The Outbreak of War in the Pacific
Pacific Onslaught
Japan Triumphant
Turning Points in the Pacific
The Solomons and New Guinea Campaigns
The Battle of the Atlantic 1940--43
The Soviet--German War 1942
Allied Grand Strategy
The War in North Africa 1942
Allied Advances in the Mediterranean
The Turn of the Tide in the USSR 1943
The Italian Campaign 1943--45
The Combined Bomber Offensive
The USSR in the `Great Patriotic War'
The United States at War
Lend-Lease
The British Home Front
The German Home Front
Resistance in Europe
Nazi Genocide
Central Pacific Advances
Asia under the Japanese
Soviet Advances 1943--44
The Battle for France 1944
The Drive to the Rhine
The Bulge and the Crossing of the Rhine
The Burma Campaign 1942--45
War in China 1942--45
The Liberation of the Philippines
The Soviet `March of Liberation'
The Big Three: from Teheran to Yalta
The Noose Tightens Around Japan
The Battle for Germany
From Yalta to Potsdam
The Final Defeat of Japan
Another Uneasy Peace
The Global Impact of the War
Selected Bibliography	105	(4)
Index	109