Preface
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction
1: Patricia Clavin: The Genesis of World War
2: Steven Lee: Japan's War in Asia
3: Nicola Labanca: The Italian Wars
4: Richard Overy: The German Wars
5: Eric Grove: The West and the War at Sea
6: Evan Mawdsley: The Allies from Defeat to Victory
7: David French: Fighting Power: World War and Military
Innovation
8: Richard Overy: Economies in Total War
9: Michael Snape: Front Line I: Armed Forces at War
10: Richard Overy: Front Line II: Civilians at War
11: Richard Bessel: Unnatural Deaths
12: David Edgerton: War, Invention, and Experts
13: David Welch: The Culture of War: Propaganda, Arts and Ideas
14: Geoffrey Roberts: From World War to Cold War
Epilogue
Further Reading
Index
Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.
He is the author of more than twenty five books on the history of
twentieth-century war and dictatorship, including the highly
acclaimed Why the Allies Won (1995) and the prize-winning
Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004). He is a
Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the European Academy
of Sciences and Arts. His most recent book is The Bombing War:
Europe 1939-1945 (2013), shortlisted for the Guggenheim-Lehrman
Prize in military history.
... The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two is a thoughtful
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original selection of photographs ... an excellent, concise and
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*Roger Moorhouse, History Today*
A stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of
the most terrible episodes in world history.
*Military History*
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II is an exemplary book
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