The Second World War and Its Aftermath, 1939-1951

by Carter, E. H.; Mears, R. a. F.; Evans, David

• ISBN13: 9781906768492
• ISBN10: 1906768498
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Stacey Intl

Summary

This massively popular series, first released in 1937, tells thestory of our islands in a straightforward, chronologicalnarrative. Carter and Mears' writing is fast-paced, muscular anddirect, and covers the matrix of British history including overseasevents, the arts, religion and major social changes.Updated and revised by an expert hand, this series is being revivedat a time when the failure of our schools to provide a connected,fact-based sense of the events that defined our nation, is beingrightly and increasingly lamented by politicians, parents and themedia. Volume VIII, covers the SecondWorld War and its aftermath, the foundation of the modern welfarestate and great technological leaps forward.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
List of Maps	p. 7
Glossary	p. 8
Outline Summary	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
The Outbreak of the Second World War
The Issue of Poland	p. 16
The Nazi-Soviet Pact	p. 21
War over Poland	p. 25
Disaster: The Battle of France
The Phoney War	p. 29
The Norwegian Campaign	p. 32
The Defeat of France	p. 36
Britain Alone against Hitler	p. 43
Survival: The Battle of Britain
Hitler's Plans	p. 47
The Combatants	p. 48
The Course of the Battle	p. 53
The Blitz	p. 56
The Significance of the Battle of Britain	p. 61
The Home Front
Evacuation	p. 65
The Impact of the Blitz	p. 67
The War and Class Antagonism	p. 74
Women and me War	p. 77
Government Power and Control	p. 81
The War in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean in 1940	p. 86
The Campaign in Greece and Crete	p. 88
The Italian Collapse in Africa	p. 90
The Intervention of the Afrikakorps	p. 93
The Turn of the Tide: The Battles of El Alamein	p. 96
The Expulsion of the Axis from Africa	p. 99
The Allied Invasion of Italy	p. 101
The Downfall of the Third Reich
The Battle of the Atlantic	p. 106
Hitler's War against the Soviet Union	p. 109
Failure Again: the Disaster of Stalingrad	p. 112
The Bombing Offensive	p. 115
Operation Overlord: the Liberation of France	p. 118
The Collapse of Nazi Germany	p. 123
The War against Japan in the Pacific
Japanese Ambitions and Policies	p. 125
Lightning War in the Pacific	p. 129
The Prisoners of the Japanese	p. 135
British Recovery: The Campaigns in Burma	p. 138
American Victories over Japan	p. 143
The Atom Bomb and the Surrender of Japan	p. 145
Labour's Creative Period, 1945-1947
Labour's Election Victory of 1945	p. 149
The Nationalization Programme	p. 152
The Social Policies of the Labour Government	p. 157
Society and Culture after the War	p. 162
Crisis and Consolidation, 1947-1951
The Crisis of 1947	p. 170
The Ascendancy of Sir Stafford Cripps	p. 172
Labour's Defeat of 1951	p. 178
The Labour Party and the Empire
The British Empire during WWII	p. 185
The End of the Indian Raj	p. 189
The Problem of Palestine	p. 199
The Dependent Empire	p. 203
The Commonwealth	p. 206
British Foreign Policy at the Start of the Cold War
The Disintegration of the Wartime Alliance	p. 208
The Foundation of the Western Alliance	p. 216
The Korean War and its Effects	p. 220
Conclusion	p. 226
Index	p. 231
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