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World War II in Minutes
The shortest history of our greatest conflict.
Clear, concise yet comprehensive, World War II in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the greatest conflict in human history.
From its causes to its aftermath, this book details in 200 mini-essays every key event of the war, including the rise of Hitler, the Dunkirk evacuation, The Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway and Iwo Jima, the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, D-Day and the fall of Berlin, and much much more.
Covers all aspects of World War origins and politics; major battles; great leaders; weapons and technology; civilian life and atrocities; turning points and surrenders; and the reverberations of the war through history.
Illustrated with 200 contemporary photographs, images and maps.
Includes entries The Path to War; The Versailles Treaty; The Spanish Civil War; Mussolini and the rise of Fascism; Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, FDR and Joseph Stalin; The Sino-Japanese War; The Blitz; U-boat warfare and Enigma; The Desert War; Operation Barbarossa; The Battle of Moscow; Resistance and collaboration; The Final Solution; Colditz; Coral Sea and Guadalcanal; The Dambusters; The bombing of Dresden; Alamein; Kursk; Montgomery, Zhukov, Rommel and Eisenhower; Operation Overlord; The liberation of Paris; The battle of the Bulge; The Yalta Conference, The Berlin bunker; The battle for Okinawa; Kamikazes; The atomic bomb; Casualties of war; War crimes trials and The Cold War.
Clear, concise yet comprehensive, World War II in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the greatest conflict in human history.
From its causes to its aftermath, this book details in 200 mini-essays every key event of the war, including the rise of Hitler, the Dunkirk evacuation, The Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway and Iwo Jima, the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, D-Day and the fall of Berlin, and much much more.
Covers all aspects of World War origins and politics; major battles; great leaders; weapons and technology; civilian life and atrocities; turning points and surrenders; and the reverberations of the war through history.
Illustrated with 200 contemporary photographs, images and maps.
Includes entries The Path to War; The Versailles Treaty; The Spanish Civil War; Mussolini and the rise of Fascism; Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, FDR and Joseph Stalin; The Sino-Japanese War; The Blitz; U-boat warfare and Enigma; The Desert War; Operation Barbarossa; The Battle of Moscow; Resistance and collaboration; The Final Solution; Colditz; Coral Sea and Guadalcanal; The Dambusters; The bombing of Dresden; Alamein; Kursk; Montgomery, Zhukov, Rommel and Eisenhower; Operation Overlord; The liberation of Paris; The battle of the Bulge; The Yalta Conference, The Berlin bunker; The battle for Okinawa; Kamikazes; The atomic bomb; Casualties of war; War crimes trials and The Cold War.
416 pages, Paperback
Published November 26, 2019
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About the author
R.G. Grant
132 books45 followersR.G. Grant is a historian who has written extensively on many aspects and periods of history. Among his more than fifty published books are: Battle, Soldier, and Battle at Sea (2005, 2007, 2008). He was also a major contributor to the ITV Visual History of the Twentieth Century (1999) and consultant for Chronology of World History (1995). He is also a contributor to 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History, where earlier versions of his contributions to Britannica first appeared.
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September 28, 2024
There were a lot of long words that couldn’t be understood as a 11 y/o but still l could make it out with the pictures.
It is a country-favoured book like every other ww2 book. If you go to Japan, you get a book which bends things into Japanese favour. Like lndians did not volunteer to join the war, they were forced to. I know that as one of my family members was given an ultimatum to either join the army or have the whole family killed, so…
It is only 200 pages in reality, as the right-hand sided pages just have photos and a line describing it.
It gives equal pages to all events, whereas l would have loved to find more about D-Day and Oppenheimer.
Overall, this is a brilliant book if you want to ace your history exam or you’re a ww2 geek and even if you’re not, you will love this.
p.s. it does contain some mature themes like photos of huge massacres and people shown naked but you can definitely read it as a teenager.
4.35 ⭐️
It is a country-favoured book like every other ww2 book. If you go to Japan, you get a book which bends things into Japanese favour. Like lndians did not volunteer to join the war, they were forced to. I know that as one of my family members was given an ultimatum to either join the army or have the whole family killed, so…
It is only 200 pages in reality, as the right-hand sided pages just have photos and a line describing it.
It gives equal pages to all events, whereas l would have loved to find more about D-Day and Oppenheimer.
Overall, this is a brilliant book if you want to ace your history exam or you’re a ww2 geek and even if you’re not, you will love this.
p.s. it does contain some mature themes like photos of huge massacres and people shown naked but you can definitely read it as a teenager.
4.35 ⭐️
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