THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE WEST
Written by Charles Messenger
Published by Cassell
in 1999
ISBN: 0304352241
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- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE WEST
Written by Charles Messenger.
Stock no. 1802700
1st.
1999.
Hardback.
Large format.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
The history of the Second World War in the western world - in Russia, Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa, by a leading historian of the War in the West. Large format. Dark grey boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 224 pages including index. ISBN: 0304352241. A fine copy in a pictorial wrapper lightly creased at edges.
Front cover
Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- MAP LIST
- CHRONOLOGY
- 1 THE ROAD TO WAR 1919-39
- 2 THE TRIUMPH OF BLITZKRIEG 1939-40
- 3 MUSSOLINI'S DREAM: THE MEDITTERANEAN THEATRE 1940-41
- 4 HITLER TURNS EAST: RUSSIAN 1941-3
- 5 SECOND FRONT: WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MIEDITTERANEAN 1942-3
- 6 THE LIBERATION OF RUSSIA 1943-4
- 7 NORTH-WEST EUROPE AND ITALY 1944
- 8 THE FINAL CAMPAIGN 1945
- 9 IN RETROSPECT
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX