Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 724 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Originally published: Houghton Mifflin Company 1948
ISBN:
147258211X
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9781472582119
Series Statement:
The Second World War volume 1
Content:
"Winston Churchill's monumental The Second World War, is a six volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, this book is also the story of one nation's heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Having learned a lesson at Munich they would never forget, the British refused to make peace with Hitler, defying him even after France had fallen and it seemed as though the Nazis were unstoppable. The Gathering Storm covers the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the capitulation of Munich and the entry of Britain into the war. This book makes clear Churchill's feeling that the Second World War was a largely senseless but unavoidable conflict. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 in part because of this awe-inspiring work"--Bloomsbury Collections
Content:
Book I From War to War 1919-1939 : Chapter I. The Follies of the Victors : 1919-1929 -- Chapter II. Peace at its Zenith : 1922-1931 -- Chapter III. Lurking Dangers -- Chapter IV. Adolf Hitler -- Chapter V. The Locust Years : 1931-1935 -- Chapter VI. The Darkening Scene : 1934 -- Chapter VII. Air Parity Lost : 1934-1935 -- Chapter VIII. Challenge and Response : 1935 -- Chapter IX. Problems of Air and Sea : 1935-1939 -- Chapter X. Sanctions Against Italy : 1935 -- Chapter XI. Hitler Strikes : 1936 Chapter XII. The Loaded Pause : Spain 1936-1937 -- Chapter XIII. Germany Armed : 1936-1938 -- Chapter XIV. Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office : His Resignation -- Chapter XV. The Rape of Austria : February 1938 -- Chapter XVI. Czechoslovakia -- Chapter XVII. The Tragedy of Munich -- Chapter XVIII. Munich Winter -- Chapter XIX. Prague, Albania, and the Polish Guarantee : January-April 1939 -- Chapter XX. The Soviet Enigma -- Chapter XXI. On The Verge.
Content:
Book II The Twilight War 1919-1939 : Chapter XXII. War -- Chapter XXIII. The Admiralty Task -- Chapter XXIV. The Ruin of Poland -- Chapter XXV. War Cabinet Problems -- Chapter XXVI. The Front in France -- Chapter XXVII. The Combat Deepens -- Chapter XXVIII. The Magnetic Mine : November and December 1939 -- Chapter XXIX. The Action Off the River Plate -- Chapter XXX. Scandinavia : Finland -- Chapter XXXI. A Dark New Year -- Chapter XXXII. Before the Storm : March 1940 -- Chapter XXXIII. The Clash at Sea : April 1940 -- Chapter XXXIV. Narvik -- Chapter XXXV. Trondheim -- Chapter XXXVI. Frustration in Norway -- Chapter XXXVII. Norway : The Final Phase -- Chapter XXXVIII. The Fall of the Government.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Originally published: Houghton Mifflin Company 1948.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 039541055X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780395410561
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780395410608
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781472582119
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