Dedication

      TO MICHAEL SISSONS,

       for thirty years a princely agent,

       counsellor and friend

      Contents

      MAIN CONTENTS

       Cover

      Title Page

      Dedication

      List of Maps

      Introduction

      1 Poland Betrayed

      2 No Peace, Little War

      3 Blitzkriegs in the West

      1 Norway

      2 The Fall of France

      4 Britain Alone

      5 The Mediterranean

      1 Mussolini Gambles

      2 A Greek Tragedy

      3 Sandstorms

      6 Barbarossa

      7 Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved

      8 America Embattled

      9 Japan’s Season of Triumph

      1 ‘I Suppose you’ll Shove the Little Men Off’

      2 The ‘White Route’ from Burma

      10 Swings of Fortune

      1 Bataan

      2 The Coral Sea and Midway

      3 Guadalcanal and New Guinea

      11 The British at Sea

      1 The Atlantic

      2 Arctic Convoys

      3 The Ordeal of Pedestal

      12 The Furnace: Russia in 1942

      13 Living with War

      1 Warriors

      2 Home Fronts

      3 A Woman’s Place

      14 Out of Africa

      15 The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943

      16 Divided Empires

      1 Whose Liberty?

      2 The Raj: Unfinest hour

      17 Asian Fronts

      1 China

      2 Jungle-Bashing and Island-Hopping

      18 Italy: High Hopes, Sour Fruits

      1 Sicily

      2 The Road to Rome

      3 Yugoslavia

      19 War in the Sky

      1 Bombers

      2 Targets

      20 Victims

      1 Masters and Slaves

      2 Killing Jews

      21 Europe Becomes a Battlefield

      22 Japan: Defying Fate

      23 Germany Besieged

      24 The Fall of the Third Reich

      1 Budapest: In the Eye of the Storm

      2 Eisenhower’s Advance to the Elbe

      3 Berlin: The Last Battle

      25 Japan Prostrate

      26 Victors and Vanquished

      Picture Section

      Notes and References

      Bibliography

      Searchable Terms

      Acknowledgements

      Maps

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