Overview

From 1937 to 1945 the world witnessed a succession of savage military policies, innovations, and actions on the field, in the water, and in the skies that resulted in the butchery of over fifty million people. The military history of the Second World War involves heroism and evil, effective and hopeless strategies, bold and pointless operations, calculation and luck, politics and diplomacy, and production and attrition. This study incorporates recent scholarship on the military history of the Second World War to examine both chronologically and in a comprehensive geographic way the most destructive event in recorded human history. Annihilation argues that World War II evolved into a war of annihilation - a total war - that engulfed militaries and civilians alike, and spared no country either destruction or blame for the carnage. The book questions the adopted intention of the ""good war"" thesis by wielding the ""strategy of annihilation"" on all sides as an architectural framework. Readers will find global coverage linking together all theaters of the conflict in a narrative that advances from the beginning to end of the war. This is the first study of the World War II that allows instructors to assign chapters of the book according to time periods or by place.

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Author:   Thomas W. Zeiler
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.924kg
ISBN:  

9780199734740

ISBN 10:   0199734747
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   19 March 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; PART I: ORIGINS AND OUTBREAK, 1919-1939 ; Chapter 1: Europe Unsettled ; Chapter 2: Democracies in Crisis ; Chapter 3: Militarism in Asia ; Chapter 4: Phony and European War ; PART II: AXIS ADVANCE, 1939-1942 ; Chapter 5: German Expansion, North and West ; Chapter 6: Blitzkrieg and Blitz ; Chapter 7: America and the Atlantic ; Chapter 8: Battle for the Mediterranean ; Chapter 9: Attack on the Soviet Union ; Chapter 10: Expansion of Imperial Japan ; PART III: TURNING POINTS, 1942-1943 ; Chapter 11: Japan in Triumph and Stalemate ; Chapter 12: Cataclysm on the Eastern Front ; Chapter 13: Shifting Fortunes in the Mediterranean ; Chapter 14: War of Words, the Sea, and the Air ; Chapter 15: Allied Offensives in Asia and the Pacific ; PART IV: GRINDING ROLLBACK, 1943-1944 ; Chapter 16: Penetrating Japan's Defenses ; Chapter 17: Costly Italy ; Chapter 18: Soviet Rout ; Chapter 19: Western European Front ; Chapter 20: Island-Hopping in the Pacific ; PART V: ANNIHILATION, 1944-1945 ; Chapter 21: German Resistance in the West ; Chapter 22: Red Army Sweep ; Chapter 23: Shrinking the Japanese Empire ; Chapter 24: Fall of the Third Reich ; Chapter 25: The Inner Ring ; Conclusion ; References ; Bibliography ; Index

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Tom Zeiler is a Professor of History and International Affairs, and former chair, at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he also directs the Global Studies Residential Academic Program. He serves as the executive editor of Diplomatic History and as the editor-in-chief of American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, as well as on SHAFR's Teaching Committee and governing Council. A member of the State Department Historical Advisory Committee, Tom has lived in Buenos Aires and Tokyo as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of six books, including one on the last half of the Pacific War, and several articles.

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