World War Two: History in an Hour

Rupert Colley

• Publisher: HarperPress
• Year: 2011
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780007451197
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About History in an Hour
• Contents
• Introduction
• Germany Invades Poland: ‘This is how I deal with any European city’
• The Finnish–Soviet War: The ‘Winter War’
• The Norwegian Campaign: ‘Missed the bus’
• The Fall of France: ‘France has lost a battle but France has not lost the war’
• The Battle of Britain and the Blitz: ‘It can only end in annihilation for one of us’
• The Mediterranean: ‘One moment on a battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace’
• North Africa: ‘A great general’
• Germany’s Invasion of the Soviet Union: ‘The whole rotten structure will come crashing down’
• War in the Far East: ‘Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars’
• The Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk: The new field marshal
• The Holocaust: ‘The man with an iron heart’
• The Battle of the Atlantic: ‘The U-boat peril’
• The Big Three
• Italy Falls: ‘You are the most hated man in Italy’
• The Bomber Offensive: ‘My name is Meyer’
• The Normandy Invasion: D-Day
• France Free: ‘Liberated by her own people’
• Approach from the East: ‘For the good have fallen’
• The End of the War in Europe: The Death of a Corporal
• The End of the War in Japan: ‘Complete and utter destruction’
• Appendix 1: Key Players
• Appendix 2: Timeline of World War Two
• Copyright
• Got Another Hour?
• About the Publisher