Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Maps
• List of Photographs
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The German Invasion of Poland, September 1939
• 2 Poland defeated, October 1939
• 3 Finland defiant, November 1939
• 4 The Scandinavian cockpit, winter 1939-1940
• 5 The German attack in the West, May 1940
• 6 Dunkirk, May 1940
• 7 The battle for France, June 1940
• 8 France's agony, Britain's resolve, June - July 1940
• 9 The battle for Britain, August - September 1940
• 10 'The War is Won!' (Hitler), October 1940
• 11 The 'new order of tyranny' (Roosevelt), winter 1940-1941
• 12 The widening war, January - March 1941
• 13 The German conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece, April1 1941
• 14 The fall of Crete; war in Africa, April - May 1941
• 15 The German invasion of Russia, June 1941
• 16 Terror in the East, July - August 1941
• 17 Towards Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev, September 1941
• 18 Russia at bay, September - October 1941
• 19 'Deciding the fate of Europe' (Hitler) November 1941
• 20 The limits of German conquest, December 1941
• 21 Japan strikes, December 1941
• 22 'We are no longer alone' (Churchill), New Year 1942
• 23 Global war, February - April 1942
• 24 The spread of resistance and of terror, summer 1942
• 25 Axis triumphs, July 1942
• 26 Guadalcanal, Dieppe, El Alamein, August - September 1942
• 27 Stalingrad and 'Torch', September - October 1942
• 28 The turn of the tide for the Allies, winter 1942
• 29 Casablanca: blueprint for victory, January 1943
• 30 The German armies in danger, February 1943
• 31 'Drive the enemy into the sea' (Montgomery), spring 1943
• 32 'The first crack in the Axis' (Roosevelt), summer 1943
• 33 Germany and Japan in retreat, autumn 1943
• 34 'Bleeding to death in the east' (Goebbels), winter 1943
• 35 Anzio, Cassino, Kwajalein, January - February 1944
• 36 Bombing, deportation and mass murder, February - March 1944
• 37 Resistance, sabotage and deception, spring 1944
• 38 D-Day, June 1944
• 39 Germany encircled, July 1944
• 40 The battles for Poland and France, summer 1944
• 41 The bitter-sweet path of liberation, autumn 1944
• 42 Into Germany, towards the Philippines, September 1944
• 43 Fighting for every mile, October - November 1944
• 44 Flying bombs, suicide pilots, death marches, January 1945
• 45 Berlin, Manila, Dresden, Tokyo, February - March 1945
• 46 The Axis in disarray; the Allies in conflict, March - April 1945
• 47 The deaths of Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler, April 1945
• 48 The end of the war in Europe, May 1945
• 49 Germany in defeat, Japan unbowed, May - July 1945
• 50 Alamogordo, Potsdam and Hiroshima, July - August 1945
• 51 The defeat of Japan, August 1945
• 52 Retribution and Remembrance, 1945-1952
• 53 'Unfinished business' 1953-1989
• Bibliography
• Index