The Second World War : Ambitions to Nemesis (Hardcover)

Introduction PART 1 Ambition 1 Rising sun 2 Weimar revision 3 Fascist Italy 4 Nazi challenge 5 Counter-challenge PART 2 Outbreak 6 Case White: Poland 7 The phoney war 8 The Winter War PART 3 Advance 9 Copenhagen to Narvik 10 Blitzkrieg in the west 11 Fall of France 12 Battle of Britain 13 Italy on the march PART 4 Expansion 14 North Africa and the Balkans 15 Battle of the Atlantic 16 Barbarossa 17 Final Solution 18 Pearl Harbor 19 Pacific hegemony PART 5 Containment 20 Midway 21 El Alamein 22 Stalingrad PART 6 Contraction 23 Clearance of North Africa 24 Defeat on the Eastern Front 25 Bomber offensive 126 Kriegsmarine repulsed 27 Invasion of Italy 28 Pacific reversal PART 7 Rout 29 Fall of Rome 20 Rollback on the Eastern Front 31 Overlord 32 Islands 33 Stalemate on the West Wall 34 The Holocaust PART 8 Nemesis 35 Mussolini’s last stand 36 Gotterdammerung 37 The bomb PART 9 Reconstruction 38 Ideals and post-war realities