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1029578
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b783948
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Lightbody, Bradley.
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| Title & Author
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The Second World War : : ambitions to nemesis /\ Bradley Lightbody.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2004.
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1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) :: maps, plans
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| ISBN
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0203644581
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: 1280077646
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: 6610077649
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: 9780203644584
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: 9780415224048
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: 9780415224055
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: 9781134592685
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: 9781134592722
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: 9781134592739
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: 9781280077647
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: 9786610077649
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0415224047
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0415224055
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Ambition: 1. Rising Sun ; 2. Weimar revision ; 3. Fascist Italy ; 4. Nazi challenge ; 5. Counter-challenge -- Outbreak: 6. Case White: Poland ; 7. The phoney war ; 8. The winter war -- Advance: 9. Copenhagen to Narvik ; 10. Blitzkrieg in the West ; 11. Fall of France ; 12. Battle of Britain ; 13. Italy on the march -- Expansion: 14. North Africa and the Balkans ; 15. Battle of the Atlantic ; 16. Barbarossa ; 17. Final solution ; 18. Pearl Harbor ; 19. Pacific hegemony -- Containment: 20. Midway ; 21. El Alamein ; 22. Stalingrad -- Contraction: 23. Clearance of North Africa ; 24. Defeat on the Eastern Front ; 25. Bomber offensive ; 26. Kriegsmarine repulsed ; 27. Invasion of Italy ; 28. Pacific reversal -- Rout: 29. Fall of Rome ; 30. Rollback on the Eastern Front ; 31. Overlord ; 32. Islands ; 33. Stalemate on the West Wall ; 34. The Holocaust -- Nemesis: 35. Mussolini's last stand ; 36. Götterdämmerung ; 37. The bomb -- Reconstruction: 38. Ideals and post-war realities.
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| Abstract
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An accessible history of the Second World War in its global contect for A-level students.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945.
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HISTORY-- Military-- World War II.
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.53
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| LC Classification
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D743.L54 2004eb
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| Parallel Title
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2nd World War
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