The Era Of World War Ii

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079

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The Second World War by Antony Beevor Pdf

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.

Author : Neil DeMarco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0199172110

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The Era of the Second World War by Neil DeMarco Pdf

Investigating the Second World War - The legacy of the First World War - Why did war not break out until 1939? - The war in Europe and NorthAfrica, 1939-42 - From Barbarossa to Berlin - The war in the Pacific 1941-45 - The civilians' war - The world at peace? - Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Fall of Singapore - Early radar.

Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716127

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Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet Pdf

“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.

Author : Mischa Honeck,James Marten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478533

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War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars by Mischa Honeck,James Marten Pdf

This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.

Author : Associated Press
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781454941170

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Victory by Associated Press Pdf

This volume covers WWII from initial outbreak to final victory with news stories and photos from the Associated Press archives. Victory commemorates the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces in Europe: May 8, 1945, VE Day. It covers the war through contemporary Associated Press coverage of key events, plus gripping human-interest accounts. The stories and photographs are presented chronologically so that readers can follow the unfolding conflict as it was experienced by ordinary citizens at the time. From Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to Japan’s ceremonial signing of surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, each event is vividly brought to life through images and text from the original articles; historian Alan Axelrod provides insightful introductory text for each chapter.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Roy S. Barnard,William Joseph Burns,Duane Ryan,US Army Military History Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112075632098

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The Era of World War II by Roy S. Barnard,William Joseph Burns,Duane Ryan,US Army Military History Institute Pdf

Author : Margaret E. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132220125

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World War II 365 Days by Margaret E. Wagner Pdf

"This unique compendium, drawn from the Library of Congress's vast collections, presents the story of a tumultuous era in which the very survival of democracy -- and the free flow of knowledge on which democracy depends -- was at issue. In these pages you will find photographs, maps, political cartoons, drawings, posters, and paintings created by people of many nations"--Preface.

Author : New York Times
Publisher : Bbs Publishing Corporation
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 088365962X

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Page One by New York Times Pdf

An impressive chronicle of the events of World War II compiles all the major New York Times headlines to create a powerful reminder that we should never forget the most destructive war in history and its effect on the American people and their government.

Author : Kathy Sammis
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0825138795

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The Era of World War II Through Contemporary Times by Kathy Sammis Pdf

Reproducible student activities cover colonial experiences, including interaction with Native Americans, family and social life, the beginnings of slavery, and the seeds democracy.

Author : Lin Poyer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824891817

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War at the Margins by Lin Poyer Pdf

War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world’s political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles—from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities’ commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century’s end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity.

Author : Barbara McCloskey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780313321535

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Artists of World War II by Barbara McCloskey Pdf

The first global survey of art in WWII, this volume presents artists whose work both supported and criticized their nations' war efforts.

Author : C. L. Sulzberger,Cyrus Leo Sulzberger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0828103313

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World War II by C. L. Sulzberger,Cyrus Leo Sulzberger Pdf

From the first strike of the Wehrmacht on Poland in 1939 to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri in 1945, the war is shown and described so the significance is seen in historical perspective while its human impact is powerfully felt.

Author : The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Publisher : Liberty Street
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618933126

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TIME-LIFE World War II: 1945 by The Editors of TIME-LIFE Pdf

The name TIME-LIFE has become synonymous with providing readers with a deeper understanding of subjects and world events that matter to us all. Now, as the U.S. commemorates the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, TIME-LIFE revisits the pivotal final battles and events in one of the most influential periods in history in World War II: 1945. Between January and August of 1945, the Allies staged their last great military victories, participated in the Potsdam and Yalta conferences, and mourned the death of FDR. Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Benito Mussolini was hanged. The first atomic bomb was dropped. These are just some of the events in the closing months of World War II, a dramatic period that both marked the end of the bloodiest conflict in history and laid the groundwork for the coming Cold War. Organized chronologically, World War II: 1945 maps out the conflict's end in a visual, easy-to-digest format that illustrates key events, days, battles, personalities, military strategies, political maneuverings and betrayals. A compelling, illustrated package, the book will bring 1945 to life for a public curious to learn about the year that changed the world.

Author : Jeffrey L. Ethell
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0898211271

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The Victory Era in Color! by Jeffrey L. Ethell Pdf

Rare color photographs of the World War II years.