A World in Flames

A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia 1939-1945

Martin Kitchen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317900948
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

A concise account of the war - including the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena. Covers the formation of the victorious Grand Alliance and to the problems that beset it, and to Nazi Germany's relations with its allies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 From the Outbreak of the War to the Fall of France (September 1939–July 1940)
• 2 The Battle of Britain and the Balkan Campaign (July 1940–June 1941)
• 3 The Attack on the Soviet Union (June 1941–December 1941)
• 4 The War in the Mediterranean (March 1941–May 1943)
• 5 The War at Sea and in the Air
• 6 The War in Asia (September 1931–July 1944)
• 7 The United States and the War
• 8 Europe under the Nazis
• 9 Two Countries at War: Britain and Germany
• 10 From Moscow to Kursk (January 1942–August 1943)
• 11 Italy and the Balkans (July 1943–October 1944)
• 12 The Soviet Advance (August 1943–April 1945)
• 13 From Normandy to the Elbe (June 1944–May 1945)
• 14 The End of the War in Asia (October 1944–September 1945)
• 15 Conclusion
• Select Bibliography
• Maps
• Index