{"product_id":"the-second-world-war-isbn-9780143035732","title":"The Second World War","description":"\u003cb\u003ePraised as “the best military historian of our generation” by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, \u003ci\u003eThe Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e, with a new foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In eloquent, perceptive analyses of the airborne battle of Crete, the carrier battle of Midway, the tank battle of Falaise, the city battle of Berlin, and the amphibious battle of Okinawa, Keegan illuminates the strategic dilemmas faced by the leaders and the consequences of their decisions on the fighting men and the course of the war as a whole. An extraordinary, definitive history, \u003ci\u003eThe Second World War \u003c\/i\u003ewill be required reading for generations to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e merits the acceptance as the standard work that it will surely recieve.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"If you want to know how it happened, read Keegan's thoughtful and elegant prose.\" -\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003eThe Second World War\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Every man a soldier\u003cbr\u003e2. Fomenting world war\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The War in the West 1940-1943\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The Triumph of Blitzkrieg\u003cbr\u003e4. Air battle: the Battle of Britain\u003cbr\u003e5. War Supply and the Battle of the Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The War in the East 1941-1943\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Hitler's strategic dilemma\u003cbr\u003e7. Securing the eastern springboard\u003cbr\u003e8. Airborne battle: Crete\u003cbr\u003e9. Barbarossa\u003cbr\u003e10. War production\u003cbr\u003e11. Crimean summer, Stalingrad winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The War in the Pacific 1941-1943\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. Tojo's strategic dilemma\u003cbr\u003e13. From Pearl Harbor to Midway\u003cbr\u003e14. Carrier battle: Midway\u003cbr\u003e15. Occupation and repression\u003cbr\u003e16. The war for the islands\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The War in the West 1943-1945\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Churchill's strategic dilemma\u003cbr\u003e18. Three wars in Africa\u003cbr\u003e19. Italy and the Balkans\u003cbr\u003e20. Overlord\u003cbr\u003e21. Tank battle: Falaise\u003cbr\u003e22. Strategic bombing\u003cbr\u003e23. The Ardennes and the Rhine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: The War in the East 1943-1945\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24. Stalin's strategic dilemma\u003cbr\u003e25. Kursk and the recapture of western Russia\u003cbr\u003e26. Resistance and espionage\u003cbr\u003e27. The Vistula and the Danube\u003cbr\u003e28. City battle: the seige of Berlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: The War in the Pacific 1943-1945\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29. Roosevelt's strategic dillemma\u003cbr\u003e30. Japan's defeat in the south\u003cbr\u003e31. Amphibious battle: Okinawa\u003cbr\u003e32. Super-weapons and the defeat of Japan\u003cbr\u003e33. The legacy of the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography and Index\u003c\/p\u003e\"Truly magnificent . . . The best military historian of our generation.\" -Tom Clancy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e merits the acceptance as the standard work that it will surely recieve . . Features the eloquences we have come to expect of John Keegan.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Analytical, concise, and coherent . . . If you want to know how it happened, read Keegan's thoughtful and elegant prose.\" -\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To write history is to choose, and Mr. Keegan's choices and preferences are as interesting and stimulating as any I have seen . . . Boldy written and fair minded.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Keegan, one of the most distinguished contemporary military historians, was for many years Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst, the British Royal Military Academy, and Defense Editor of the London Daily Telegraph. 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