The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Second World War

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Uneasy Peace....Pages 1-2
The Road to War in Asia....Pages 3-4
The Road to War in Europe....Pages 5-6
The Fall of Poland....Pages 7-8
Soviet Expansion 1939–41....Pages 9-10
The ‘Phoney War’ and the Invasion of Norway....Pages 11-12
The Fall of the Low Countries and France 1940....Pages 13-14
The Battle of Britain and ‘the Blitz’....Pages 15-16
German Europe 1940–41....Pages 17-18
The War in Africa and the Middle East....Pages 19-20
Western Desert Campaigns 1940–41....Pages 21-22
The German Invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece....Pages 23-24
The Invasion of the USSR 1941....Pages 25-26
The Defence of Moscow....Pages 27-28
The Outbreak of War in the Pacific....Pages 29-30
Pacific Onslaught....Pages 31-32
Japan Triumphant....Pages 33-34
Turning Points in the Pacific....Pages 35-36
The Solomons and New Guinea Campaigns....Pages 37-38
The Battle of the Atlantic 1940–43....Pages 39-40
The Soviet-German War 1942....Pages 41-42
Allied Grand Strategy....Pages 43-44
The War in North Africa 1942....Pages 45-46
Allied Advances in the Mediterranean....Pages 47-48
The Turn of the Tide in the USSR 1943....Pages 49-50
The Italian Campaign 1943–45....Pages 51-52
The Combined Bomber Offensive....Pages 53-54
The USSR in the ‘Great Patriotic War’....Pages 55-56
The United States at War....Pages 57-58
Lend-Lease....Pages 59-60
The British Home Front....Pages 61-62
The German Home Front....Pages 63-64
Resistance in Europe....Pages 65-66
Nazi Genocide....Pages 67-68
Central Pacific Advances....Pages 69-70
Asia under the Japanese....Pages 71-72
Soviet Advances 1943–44....Pages 73-74
The Battle for France 1944....Pages 75-76
The Drive to the Rhine....Pages 77-78
The Bulge and the Crossing of the Rhine....Pages 79-80
The Burma Campaign 1942–45....Pages 81-82
War in China 1942–45....Pages 83-84
The Liberation of the Philippines....Pages 85-86
The Soviet ‘March of Liberation’....Pages 87-88
The Big Three: from Teheran to Yalta....Pages 89-90
The Noose Tightens Around Japan....Pages 91-92
The Battle for Germany....Pages 93-94
From Yalta to Potsdam....Pages 95-96
The Final Defeat of Japan....Pages 97-98
Another Uneasy Peace....Pages 99-100
The Global Impact of the War....Pages 101-102
Back Matter....Pages 105-131