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World War Two, A Very Peculiar History电子书

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作       者:Pipe, Jim

出  版  社:Andrews UK

出版时间:2012-02-24

字       数:269.1万

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World War Two, A Very Peculiar History' explores the most destructive event of the twentieth century, a war that defined and shaped the world we live in today. Jim Pipe introduces the nations, as well as individuals, that participated and the politics that drove them, alongside the Peculiar History-style fascinating trivia and quirky facts. In this book you can learn about mad British schemes and the atomic bomb, Nazi hunters and wartime songs, as well as comprehensive chapters about the origins and causes of World War Two, the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich, how the war was handled at home and much, much more. 'World War Two, A Very Peculiar History' is also packed with captivating anecdotes and interesting panels of mind-boggling information about World War II.
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Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

World War Two

Introduction: Heroes and villains

Ten heroic war movies

Daring raids, great escapes

Soldiers’ talk

Skeletons in the closet

CHAPTER ONE: The road to war

Before you, de Gaulle

Rise of the dictators

Nazism in a nutshell

Nicer than expected…

Which Reich?

Enough is enough

How they lined up

Soldiers’ nicknames

CHAPTER TWO: The Axis invades

Operation Canned Goods

Quick as a flash

Friend or foe?

The War Cup

Hitler heads west

‘V’ for Victory

The mighty Maginot Line

Franglais spoken here?

Resistance…

…or collaboration?

Notorious collaborators

The Battle of Britain

Operation Willi

Reach for the Sky

Wish you were here?

New fronts

Mysterious Minister Hess

The biggest gamble of all

Dobbin, Rudolph and Dumbo go to war

Uncle Sam joins in

Car, courtesy Capone

Short and sharp

Kilroy was here

The tide turns

Death by any other name

CHAPTER THREE: Nations at war

Atrocities

Welders, warriors and witches

The Home Front

Dad’s Army

Behind barbed wire

Totally bunkers?

Wabbit stew

Truth: the first casualty of war

Propaganda messages

Famous wartime songs

Living with the enemy

The spoils of war

The Holocaust

‘Re-education’

Operation Bernhard

Holocaust heroes

The children’s war

CHAPTER FOUR: The long fight back

A whiff of trouble

Operation Mincemeat

Island hoppers

Desperate measures

D-Day and beyond

The whispers of war

Are you mad?

New technology

Weird weapons and tactics

To the bitter end

Where are they now?

No surrender!

30 years in the jungle

A world turned upside down

Grim statistics

Peace and retribution

The Nazi hunters

The real winners?

Timeline of World War Two

Glossary

End matter

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