1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Ww II - Softcover

Vandiver, Frank E.

 
9780767905848: 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Ww II
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0767905849 ISBN 13: 9780767905848
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2003

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Organized chronologically, a detailed history of the Second World War looks at the war from a global perspective and offers a host of facts about the warring nations, the campaigns and battles, military strategy, weaponry and technology, and political, social, and cultural factors that influenced the course of World War II. Reprint.

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FRANK E. VANDIVER, President Emeritus of Texas A&M University and former acting president of Rice University and of the American University of Cairo, is currently director of the Mosher Institute for Defense Studies at Texas A&M. His previous books include Mighty Stonewall; Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the Confederacy; Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing; and Blood Brothers: A Short History of the Civil War. He lives in College Station, Texas.


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e millions who want to know more about The Greatest Generation and the global struggle they fought and won, an essential work of popular reference.

World War II was the most complex, geographically extensive, and momentous global conflict in human history a subject uniquely suited to the time-tested formula of the acclaimed 1001 series. From the rise of Hitler and Germany s military resurgence to Japan s surrender to the United States, esteemed historian Frank Vandiver presents hundreds of key facts about the war that defined the twentieth century and shaped the world to this day. Organized chronologically, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About World War II looks at the war with a truly global perspective, covering all the warring nations and examining not only the crucial battlefields but also the strategy, the technology, and the cultural forces that influenced the war. Informed, concise, and accessible, this book will delight both th

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0767905849
ISBN 13 
9780767905848
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Anzahl der Seiten
400
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