Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War

Front Cover
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About the Authors
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Front Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents......Page 5
List of Illustrations......Page 9
List of Maps......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Foreword to the Second Edition......Page 21
The Western Hemisphere......Page 29
Introduction to the Second Edition......Page 30
Part I - THE SOURCES OF WAR IN EUROPE......Page 49
CHAPTER 1 - The Background......Page 50
CHAPTER 2 - From Versailles to the Soldiers' Oath: 1919-34......Page 73
CHAPTER 3 - The Futile Opposition: 1934-8......Page 91
CHAPTER 4 - Munich ... Prague ... Warsaw......Page 113
Part II - HITLER'S WARS: 1939-41......Page 142
CHAPTER 5 - From Poland to the North Cape......Page 144
CHAPTER 6 - The Fall of France......Page 158
CHAPTER 7 - The Battle of Britain......Page 176
CHAPTER 8 - The Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East......Page 194
CHAPTER 9 - Barbarossa......Page 216
CHAPTER 10 - War with America......Page 236
Part III - EUROPE UNDER THE NAZIS......Page 260
CHAPTER 11 - The New Order......Page 261
CHAPTER 12 - Exploitation......Page 292
CHAPTER 13 - Resistance......Page 311
CHAPTER 14 - Revolution in the South-East......Page 331
CHAPTER 15 - France......Page 345
Part IV - THE MIDDLE GAME......Page 373
CHAPTER 16 - The Muster against the Axis......Page 374
CHAPTER 17 - The Clearing of North Africa......Page 399
CHAPTER 18 - The End of Fascism......Page 423
CHAPTER 19 - Hitler's German Enemies......Page 438
CHAPTER 20 - Great Britain at War......Page 453
Part V - THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY: 1942-5......Page 483
CHAPTER 21 - The Battle of the Seas......Page 484
CHAPTER 22 - The Victory of the USSR......Page 504
CHAPTER 23 - Mass Bombing......Page 537
CHAPTER 24 - The Western Fronts......Page 558
CHAPTER 25 - Disintegration......Page 580
Epilogue......Page 595
The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict......Page 618
Quotation
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Part I - ASIAN CONFLICT......Page 620
CHAPTER 1 - China and Japan......Page 621
CHAPTER 2 - Japan in International Affairs......Page 646
CHAPTER 3 - The Japan Which Struck......Page 749
CHAPTER 4 - The China Which Was Struck At......Page 779
CHAPTER 5 - Naval Conflict by Methods Short of War......Page 795
CHAPTER 6 - The Great Manchurian Adventure......Page 807
CHAPTER 7 - China: Internal Revolutions and Foreign Policy......Page 836
CHAPTER 8 - Japan: Internal Revolutions and Foreign Policy......Page 870
CHAPTER 9 - The War Resumed: The Outbreak of the China Incident......Page 899
CHAPTER 10 - International Alarums: Japan and Appeasement......Page 927
CHAPTER 11 - India and the Conflict......Page 972
CHAPTER 12 - The Magnetic North......Page 981
Part II - OCEAN CLASH......Page 1004
CHAPTER 13 - The War Changes Its Character......Page 1005
CHAPTER 14 - The Negotiation preceding War......Page 1027
CHAPTER 15 - The Bombardment of Pearl Harbor......Page 1040
CHAPTER 16 - The War after Pearl Harbor......Page 1059
Part III - THE HIGH TIDE OF WAR......Page 1071
CHAPTER 17 - Japan's Hundred Days......Page 1072
CHAPTER 18 - The Storin in India......Page 1109
CHAPTER 19 - Four Loose Threads......Page 1125
CHAPTER 20 - MacArthur and Nimitz in the Pacific......Page 1162
Part IV - THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN......Page 1176
CHAPTER 21 - Mid-1943......Page 1177
CHAPTER 22 - Two Indian Armies......Page 1199
CHAPTER 23 - China 1942-4......Page 1219
CHAPTER 24 - Twilight......Page 1236
CHAPTER 25 - The End......Page 1252
Epilogue......Page 1292
Afterword......Page 1308
Chronological Skeleton......Page 1309
Books: The Western Hemisphere......Page 1317
Books: The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict......Page 1327
Rear Cover
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