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The Second World War Experience Richard Overy

The Second World War Experience By Richard Overy

The Second World War Experience by Richard Overy


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Explores the sequence of events which brought about the end of the Second World War. Starting in the west with the dramatic D-Day landings and following the campaign to liberate Western Europe, this title covers the famous battles of Arnhem and the Bulge, to the German surrender at Luneberg Heath.

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The Second World War Experience: The Struggle for Victory 1944-45: v. 4 by Richard Overy

The Second World War Experience is a four-volume series, published in association with the Imperial War Museum, covering the whole six-year global conflagration. Volume four, The Struggle for Victory explores the gripping sequence of events which brought about the end of the Second World War. Starting in the west with the dramatic D-Day landings and following the campaign to liberate Western Europe encompassing the famous battles of Arnhem and the Bulge, to the German surrender at Luneberg Heath. In the east the Soviet advance culminated with a bloody battle fought at the heart of Hitler's Germany, Berlin. In the Far East and Pacific the relentless struggle against the Japanese continued with hard-fought but ultimately victorious campaigns to win back the Philippines and gain a foothold on Japanese soil - the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. However, it took the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring about final Japanese surrender. Rare items of memorabilia sourced from around the world combined with an audio CD of veterans' first-hand accounts bring the era and the events to life as never before. Memorabilia includes: Montgomery's hand-written D-Day notes; Eisenhower's draft 'in case of failure' message written before D-Day; and, diary of a sergeant in the Royal Hampshire regiment covering his involvement in the D-Day landings, battle for Normandy and Operation 'Market Garden' - the battle for Arnhem.

About Richard Overy

Richard Overy, Professor of History, University of Exeter, is a world-renowned historian and an expert on the history of the Second World War, air warfare and the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships. He has won five prizes for his published work, including the 2005 Wolfson prize for History. He is a regular contributor to the Independent, Sunday Telegraph and Guardian.

Table of Contents

D-Day; Battle for Normandy; V-Weapons Campaign; Marianas: Defence to the Death; Battle of The Philippine Sea; Operation Bagration; Defeat of the Luftwaffe; Stalemate in Italy; July Plot: the Coup that Failed; Breakout: Operation Cobra; Warsaw Uprising; End of Vichy France: Operation Dragoon; Liberation of Paris; Operation Market Garden: Arnhem; Yugoslavia: Liberation from Within; Recapture of the Philippines; Battle of Leyte Gulf; Behind Barbed Wire: the Fate of POWs; Battle of the Bulge; Soviet Advance on Germany: Vistula-Oder Operation; Yalta Conference; Iwo Jima; Fire-bombing of Tokyo; Western Advance into Germany: From the Rhine to the Elbe; Okinawa; Liberation of the Camps; Victory in Burma; Battle for Berlin; Last Days in Hitler's Bunker; Victory in Italy; German Surrender; Atomic Bombs; Japanese Surrender; Casualties; War Crimes Trials; From World War to Cold War.

Additional information

GOR010076347
9781847321879
1847321879
The Second World War Experience: The Struggle for Victory 1944-45: v. 4 by Richard Overy
Used - Like New
Hardback
Welbeck Publishing Group
20090806
80
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