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

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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.

Part 1: Dark Clouds Form Over Europe

(63)

Past Is Prologue

(10)

Those Who Repeat the Past

(1)

A Different Kind of Boom

(1)

Black Hats, White Hats, and Stalin

(3)

The Front Lines

(1)

War Is Hell

(1)

Dante's Soldiers

(1)

The Allies' Skeletons

(1)

True Freedom Fighters

(1)

From Abyssinia to Zyklon

(1)

The War That Didn't End All Wars

(14)

The Fuse Is Lit

(2)

Battle of the Trenches

(1)

War Grows More Hellish

(1)

Winners and Losers

(1)

No Garden Party at Versailles

(1)

Needed: An International Police Officer

(1)

A World Government for an Ungovernable World

(1)

The Senate Spurns Wilson's Baby

(1)

A League of Their Own

(1)

A Hindenburg Without the Hot Air

(1)

A Law Against War

(1)

Brothers, Can You Spare a Billion?

(1)

Depressing Depression

(1)

People Don't Kill, Guns Do

(1)

A Wolf at the Door

(2)

The Little Artist Seeks a Bigger Canvas

(14)

Picture Imperfect

(1)

A Portrait of the Artist

(1)

Years in the Service

(1)

A Nazi Is Born

(1)

A Room with a Viewpoint

(1)

From Democrat to Dictator

(2)

America Crashes the Party

(1)

A Democrat in Name Only

(1)

Citizen Hitler

(1)

Strange Bedfellows

(1)

The Terror Begins

(4)

Long Knives of the Gestapo

(1)

Marked for Persecution

(1)

The Master Race

(2)

Hitler Goes for the Gold

(1)

Follow the ``Leader''

(1)

Might Makes Reich

(3)

The Bell Tolls for War

(10)

Oiling the War Machine

(1)

Lies and Allies

(1)

Drawing a Line at the Rhine

(1)

Americans Are Stuck in Neutral

(1)

Making Fascism Fashionable

(1)

Tanks Versus Spears

(1)

The Red Sun Also Rises

(1)

What Hemingway Missed

(3)

Peace in Whose Time?

(12)

The Anschluss Was No Sound of Music

(2)

One Happy German Family

(1)

Freud Takes His Couch to the United States

(1)

``I Have No More Territorial Demands''

(2)

The Czechs Stand Alone

(1)

``Peace For Our Time''

(1)

The Night of the Broken Glass

(1)

Czech Mate

(1)

Poles Apart

(1)

Entangling Alliances

(1)

Totalitarians Unite!

(1)

It Must Be War

(2)

Part 2: Blitzkrieg

(62)

Goose-Stepping Across Europe

(10)

The Nazis Roll Over the Poles

(1)

Britain Mounts a Confetti Campaign

(1)

A Merciless Victor

(1)

War Without Rules

(1)

Spy Versus Spy

(1)

Interested Spectators

(1)

The Winter of Stalin's Discontent

(5)

Massacre in the Forest

(3)

The Not So Phony War

(16)

The U-Boats

(1)

Hunting in Packs

(1)

Magnetic Mines

(1)

The Doomed Danes

(1)

The Allies Start to Fight

(2)

Hitler Takes the Low Road

(3)

Misreading the Numbers

(1)

The Dike Breaks

(1)

The Dominoes Fall

(1)

``Conquer We Must''

(1)

The French Are Fried

(1)

Miracle at Dunkirk

(1)

Those Left Behind

(2)

A Stab in the Back

(1)

The Arc de Defeat

(4)

Puttin' on the Brits

(10)

America Takes a First Step

(1)

Wolves at Sea

(1)

Still Some Fight in the French

(1)

The Last Neutrals

(2)

The Scourge of the East

(1)

Germany's Art Thieves

(1)

The Battle of Britain

(1)

The Allies Turn on Each Other

(1)

The Blitz

(2)

Hitler Declares Victory

(1)

An Arsenal for Democracy

(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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