The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II, 2E,9781592572045

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II, 2E

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ISBN13: 9781592572045
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Pub. Date: 2004-03-02
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Summary

You're no idiot, of course. You know that World War II involved more nations and combatants than any war before or since. And although the Allies defeated the Axis more than 50 years ago, the causes of the war are still debated -- and its ramifications continue to affect world policy. The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II, Second Edition, follows the Allied and Axis powers through the major campaigns to the new world order. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Dark Clouds Form Over Europe
1(63)
Past Is Prologue
3(10)
Those Who Repeat the Past
4(1)
A Different Kind of Boom
4(1)
Black Hats, White Hats, and Stalin
5(3)
The Front Lines
8(1)
War Is Hell
9(1)
Dante's Soldiers
10(1)
The Allies' Skeletons
11(1)
True Freedom Fighters
11(1)
From Abyssinia to Zyklon
12(1)
The War That Didn't End All Wars
13(14)
The Fuse Is Lit
14(2)
Battle of the Trenches
15(1)
War Grows More Hellish
15(1)
Winners and Losers
16(1)
No Garden Party at Versailles
17(1)
Needed: An International Police Officer
18(1)
A World Government for an Ungovernable World
19(1)
The Senate Spurns Wilson's Baby
19(1)
A League of Their Own
20(1)
A Hindenburg Without the Hot Air
21(1)
A Law Against War
22(1)
Brothers, Can You Spare a Billion?
22(1)
Depressing Depression
23(1)
People Don't Kill, Guns Do
24(1)
A Wolf at the Door
25(2)
The Little Artist Seeks a Bigger Canvas
27(14)
Picture Imperfect
28(1)
A Portrait of the Artist
28(1)
Years in the Service
29(1)
A Nazi Is Born
29(1)
A Room with a Viewpoint
30(1)
From Democrat to Dictator
31(2)
America Crashes the Party
31(1)
A Democrat in Name Only
32(1)
Citizen Hitler
32(1)
Strange Bedfellows
33(1)
The Terror Begins
33(4)
Long Knives of the Gestapo
34(1)
Marked for Persecution
34(1)
The Master Race
35(2)
Hitler Goes for the Gold
37(1)
Follow the ``Leader''
38(1)
Might Makes Reich
38(3)
The Bell Tolls for War
41(10)
Oiling the War Machine
42(1)
Lies and Allies
42(1)
Drawing a Line at the Rhine
43(1)
Americans Are Stuck in Neutral
44(1)
Making Fascism Fashionable
45(1)
Tanks Versus Spears
46(1)
The Red Sun Also Rises
47(1)
What Hemingway Missed
48(3)
Peace in Whose Time?
51(12)
The Anschluss Was No Sound of Music
52(2)
One Happy German Family
52(1)
Freud Takes His Couch to the United States
53(1)
``I Have No More Territorial Demands''
54(2)
The Czechs Stand Alone
54(1)
``Peace For Our Time''
55(1)
The Night of the Broken Glass
56(1)
Czech Mate
57(1)
Poles Apart
58(1)
Entangling Alliances
59(1)
Totalitarians Unite!
60(1)
It Must Be War
61(2)
Part 2: Blitzkrieg
63(62)
Goose-Stepping Across Europe
65(10)
The Nazis Roll Over the Poles
66(1)
Britain Mounts a Confetti Campaign
66(1)
A Merciless Victor
67(1)
War Without Rules
67(1)
Spy Versus Spy
68(1)
Interested Spectators
69(1)
The Winter of Stalin's Discontent
70(5)
Massacre in the Forest
72(3)
The Not So Phony War
75(16)
The U-Boats
76(1)
Hunting in Packs
76(1)
Magnetic Mines
76(1)
The Doomed Danes
77(1)
The Allies Start to Fight
77(2)
Hitler Takes the Low Road
79(3)
Misreading the Numbers
79(1)
The Dike Breaks
80(1)
The Dominoes Fall
81(1)
``Conquer We Must''
82(1)
The French Are Fried
83(1)
Miracle at Dunkirk
84(1)
Those Left Behind
85(2)
A Stab in the Back
86(1)
The Arc de Defeat
87(4)
Puttin' on the Brits
91(10)
America Takes a First Step
92(1)
Wolves at Sea
92(1)
Still Some Fight in the French
93(1)
The Last Neutrals
93(2)
The Scourge of the East
94(1)
Germany's Art Thieves
94(1)
The Battle of Britain
95(1)
The Allies Turn on Each Other
96(1)
The Blitz
96(2)
Hitler Declares Victory
98(1)
An Arsenal for Democracy
99(2)
America Inches Closer to the Spreading War
101(10)
The Giant Awakens
102(1)
War Is as Easy as ABC
103(1)
Arms on the Installment Plan
103(1)
Hitler Won't Take ``No'' for an Answer
104(1)
Mussolini's Greek Misadventure
105(1)
Stalin Protects His Back
106(1)
Mercury Conquers Crete
106(1)
The Atlantic Is Not the Pacific
107(1)
Italy's Brief Empire
108(1)
Enter the Desert Fox
109(2)
Adolf Turns on Joe
111(14)
Shifting Alliances
112(1)
Mindless Bolsheviks
113(1)
Stalin Tries to Buy Time
114(1)
Moving on East
115(1)
America Arms the Commies
116(1)
The War Is Won
116(1)
Japan Threatens the West
117(1)
The Atlantic Charter
118(1)
The Sixth Man
119(2)
Russians Dream of a White Christmas
121(1)
So Close, Yet So Far
122(3)
Part 3: The Yanks Are Coming!
125(58)
The Day of Infamy Arrives
127(12)
Grabbing Supplies to Meet Demand
128(1)
No Surprise from Japan
128(1)
Empire Versus Empire
129(1)
Black Sunday
130(3)
Maybe Yamamoto Wasn't So Smart
133(1)
Island Paradises No More
134(2)
Germany Jumps In
136(3)
War in the Pacific
139(12)
America's U-Boats
140(1)
Britain's Humiliation
140(1)
I Shall Return!
141(1)
The Bataan Death March
142(1)
Doolittle's Raiders
142(2)
Corralled in the Coral Sea
144(1)
Midway Tips the Balance
145(2)
America Takes Offense
147(4)
We're Coming for You, Adolf
151(14)
Huns First, Japs Later
152(1)
Slaves of the Reich
153(1)
No Let-Up in the Atlantic
153(1)
Bombs Away
154(2)
The White Rose
156(1)
Russia's Cold Winter
156(3)
Rommel's Wild Ride
159(2)
Torching the Germans
161(4)
America at War
165(18)
The War Machine Revs Up
166(1)
Women Go to Work
167(1)
Hollywood Commandos
168(1)
The Actors Fight for Real
169(1)
Celebrities Find a New Spotlight
170(1)
Athletes Play on a Different Field
171(1)
War Is Good Politics
171(1)
All the News That's Censored to Fit
172(3)
America Interns Its Own
175(1)
The Great Patriotic War
175(1)
WACs, WASPs, and WAVES
176(2)
Segregation in the Army
178(1)
The Tuskegee Airmen
179(1)
Japanese-American GIs
180(3)
Part 4: Allies Kick Axis
183(48)
The Axis Goes in Reverse
185(12)
Envisioning Victory
186(1)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
187(1)
Better to Give Than Receive
188(1)
They Sank My Boat
189(1)
The Blood-Soaked Island of Tarawa
190(1)
War Hits Home in Germany
191(2)
Making Hamburger of Hamburg
193(1)
Knocking Out Peenemunde's Rockets
194(3)
Taking the War to Hitler
197(10)
The Torch Is Passed
198(1)
Fallout from the Fox's Fall
199(1)
The Man Who Never Was
200(1)
Sicily Is Rubbed Out
201(1)
Benito Is Finito
202(1)
Ike Takes Command
202(1)
No Roman Holiday, Yet
203(1)
Operation Shingle
204(1)
Battle Royale at Cassino
205(2)
The Eastern Front Falls Back
207(12)
Hitler's Friends Urge Peace
208(1)
The Red Army Rolls
208(1)
Hitler's Blame Game
209(1)
Foreshadowing a New Empire
209(1)
Still Plenty of Fight in the Germans
210(2)
Molotov's Diplomatic Cocktail
212(1)
Here We Snow Again
213(1)
The Big Three Finally Meet
213(1)
Fend for Yourselves, Guys
214(1)
Stalin's D Day
215(4)
Pacific Island-Hopping
219(12)
China Breaks Free
220(1)
Reopening the Burma Road
220(2)
Merrill's Marauders
222(1)
Small Islands, High Human Cost
222(1)
A Turkey Shoot
223(1)
Planning For Japan
224(1)
MacArthur's Return
225(2)
Kamikazes
227(1)
The Battle of Bull's Run
228(1)
Fighting the Japanese and the Elements
228(1)
Japan Doesn't Know the War Is Over
229(2)
Part 5: Let Freedom Ring
231(78)
Invasion!
233(20)
Hitler's Secret Weapons
234(1)
The Atlantic Wall
235(1)
Patton's Phantom Army
236(1)
Why Normandy?
237(1)
The Battle of Berlin
238(1)
Massing the Troops
239(2)
D Day
241(2)
We'll Start the War from Right Here
243(1)
No Day at the Beach
244(3)
Going for the Gold
246(1)
O Canada!
246(1)
Sword Fight
246(1)
A Momentous Day
246(1)
While Hitler Slept
247(1)
On to Paris!
248(1)
Germany Gives Britain the Old V-1, 2
249(1)
The Return of de Gaulle
250(3)
For You the War Is Over
253(16)
It Wasn't Hogan's Heroes
254(1)
``H'' Is for Hebrew
255(1)
The Soldiers of Berga
256(1)
The Horrors of Buchenwald
257(3)
Murder at Mauthausen
260(2)
Massacre at Malmedy
262(1)
The Great Escape
262(2)
Special Treatment
264(1)
Prisoners in the Pacific
265(1)
German POWs in the United States
265(1)
The Ones Left Behind
266(3)
Hitler Cheats Death
269(12)
The Mark of Caen
269(2)
The Assassins' Plot Explodes
271(1)
The Allies Take Offense
272(1)
The Liberation of Paris
273(1)
The Offensive Runs Out of Gas
274(1)
No Picnics at Market-Garden
275(2)
The Politics of War
277(1)
The Battle of the Bulge
277(3)
Hungry for Hungary
280(1)
Victory in Europe
281(12)
No Happy New Year for Germany
282(1)
Yalta Sets the Agenda
282(2)
Dresden Goes Up in Flames
284(1)
Hitler's Last Stand
285(1)
FDR's Death Stuns the World
286(1)
The Siege of Berlin
286(1)
Bunker Pill
287(1)
Il Duce's Reward
288(1)
Germany Surrenders
288(1)
Dividing the Spoils at Potsdam
289(4)
The Red Sun Sets
293(16)
Unfinished Business in the Philippines
294(1)
Uncommon Valor
294(2)
The Last Battle
296(1)
Firestorm!
297(1)
Olympic and Coronet
297(1)
The Power of a Particle
298(1)
The Manhattan Project
299(2)
Keeping the Weapon Secret
301(1)
The Gadget Becomes a Reality
302(1)
The Final Countdown
303(2)
Ground Zero
305(2)
Japan Surrenders
307(2)
Part 6: The Smoke Clears, and the Reckoning Begins
309(74)
Night and Fog
311(16)
The Nuremberg Laws
312(1)
Nowhere to Run
313(1)
The Nazi Euthanasia Program
314(1)
The Final Solution
315(1)
Building Walls Around the Jews
315(1)
The Model Ghetto
316(1)
The Einsatzgruppen
317(1)
The Camps
318(3)
Medical Experiments
321(1)
Gypsies, Gays, and Jehovah's Witnesses
321(2)
Anne Frank
323(1)
Americans Also Died in Camps
323(2)
What's Different About the Jews?
325(2)
Liberators, Rescuers, and Avengers
327(20)
Liberation
328(1)
Flying Around Auschwitz
329(2)
The Danish Rescue
331(1)
Righteous Persons
332(2)
We Closed Our Eyes
334(1)
Remembrance
335(1)
``I Was Just Following Orders''
336(6)
The Other Nuremberg Trials
340(1)
The ``Bitch of Buchenwald''
340(1)
Taylor's Revenge
341(1)
Quisling and Quislings
342(1)
The Japanese Face the Music
342(1)
``Justice'' for the Victims of Berga
343(1)
Still Hunting Nazis
344(3)
Freedom's Heavy Price
347(36)
Casualties of War
348(1)
The People Behind the Statistics
349(1)
Economies in Shambles
350(1)
The Marshall Plan
351(1)
Emerging from the Rubble
352(1)
People Without a Country
353(1)
Tools of War
354(1)
A New Cold War Begins
355(1)
The Nuclear Arms Race
356(1)
The Disunited Nations
357(1)
Telling the Story of World War II
358(1)
Will World Wars End at Two?
359(2)
Appendixes
A Roll Call
361(2)
B Victims of the Holocaust
363(2)
C Recommended Reading
365(10)
D Marching in Time: A Chronology of World War II
375(8)
Index 383

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