ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: ddd
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The World At War
by Mark Arnold-Forster

manji format
ilustrovana fotografijama
340 strana
odlično očuvana, stranice požutele
engleski jezik

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This narrative makes for compelling reading both in it`s combined sweep and attention to detail. The author covers World War II from a military and political point of view, from the rise of Hitler to the war`s aftermath. This book was written to accompany the television series of the same name and i s a series of accounts of individual campaigns, rather than chronological series. The book covers interesting facts such as the mention of how the war nourished important technological and social developments- American technicians desperate to break Japanese codes developed the ancestors of today`s computers. In 1942 the Japanese captured the world`s only source of quinine and inadvertently helped the British to develop the cure for malaria.

In Chapter 1 we read of Neville Chamberlain`s appeasement policy and that Chamberlain and his Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax actually planned to make a deal with Nazi Germany in 1940 after the war had started, whereby Britain would sue for peace. This was of course scuppered by the taking over of the helm of the intrepid Winston Churchill. In the chapter on the Greek and Yugoslav campaign Arnold-Foster points out that the Yugoslav revolt against Nazi occupation and the British landing in Yugoslavia in May, 1941pushed the date of the German invasion of the Soviet Union until June 22 1941 putting the Nazis at a considerable disadvantage, causing them to fight the Soviets in the dead of the Russian winter which had also been the undoing of course of Napoleon.
Hitler saw the Slavs as subhuman, only slightly less obnoxious than the Jews, and this is what motivated his sudden invasion of Russia. While most of the Russians were not ferevent Communists, they were all strong patriots and this is what rallied them together to fight the war under Stalin against the Nazi invasion. The Nazi invasion of rRussia cost 20 million Russian lives. Interesting accounts of the Battle of Britain, the North Africa Campaign, the war in Yugoslavia and Greece and the war of the allies against the Japanese in the Pacific. Hero`s of the war we read about include Orde Wingate, weho rallied Ethiopain resistance units to fight the Italians in 1940 and later the Chindits in burma to fight the Japanese. Wingate had before the war helped Jewish fighters in Mandatory Palestine protect themselves from Nazi-inspired Arab terrorists.