Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history's bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and logistics. This textbook includes the following features:
- A lively narrative of facts, events, people, and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis
- New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II
- Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context
- Chapters, sections, and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments
- Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II.
Global in focus, by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide, this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century.
Autorentext
Michael J. Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History at North Dakota State University, U.S.A. He is author of the previous editions of World War II: A Short History and of World War I: A Short History.
David J. Ulbrich directs the online M.A. in Military History Program at Norwich University, U.S.A. He is co-author of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare and of the second edition of Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century.
Klappentext
Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history's bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and logistics. This textbook includes the following features:
- A lively narrative of facts, events, people, and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis
- New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II
- Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context
- Chapters, sections, and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments
- Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II.
Global in focus, by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide, this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century.
Inhalt
1. The Great War and the Treaty of Versailles, 1914-1920
2. Restoring Normalcies and Rising Threats, 1920-1929
3. The Great Depression, the Asian War, and Nazi Germany, 1929-1939
4. Innovation and Stagnation of Technologies, 1919-1941
5. The Start of War the European War, 1939-1940
6. Fighting on the Periphery in Europe, 1939-1941
7. Brutal New Orders: Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia
8. America's Path to War and Japan's Tide of Victories, 1939-1942
9. Turning the Tide in Asia and the Pacific, 1942-1944
10. Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
11. Contesting Logistics in the Air and at Sea
12. Total Wars on the Home Fronts
13. Winning on Four Fronts in Europe, 1944-1945
14. Winning on Four Fronts in Asia and the Pacific, 1944-1945
15. From Hot War to Cold War