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War Total C|63 Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint WAR TOTAL The Story of World War II PANTHEON BOOKS A Division ofRandom House, NewYork Copyright © 1972 by Peter Calvocoressi and Ben Wint All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy- right Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in England as Total War: The CausesandCourses of the Second World War by Allen Lane The Penguin Press, London. LibraryofCongressCatalogingin PublicationData Calvocoressi, Peter. Total War. Bibliography: pp.905-919 1. WorldWar, 1939-1945. I.Wint,Guy, 1910-1969, jointauthor. II.Title. D743.C24 1972 940.53 72-3402 ISBN 0-394-47104-0 We are grateful to Martin Gilbert of Merton College, Oxford, and to the Macmillan Company for their kind permission to use the maps on pages 102, 108, 120, 156, 167, 172, 181, 219, 223, 225, 233, 235, 339, 445, 448, 460, 473, 480, 522, 739, 896, 884, which have been adapted from the following: Russian History Atlas edited by Martin Gilbert. Cartography by © Arthur Banks. Copyright 1972 by Martin Gilbert. Recent History Atlas edited by Martin Gilbert. Cartography by © John Flower. Copyright 1966 by Martin Gilbert. Jewish History Atlas edited by Martin Gilbert. Cartography by © Peter Kingsland. Copyright 1969 by Martin Gilbert. American History Atlas edited by Martin Gilbert. Cartography © by Peter Kingsland. Copyright 1969 by Martin Gilbert. Manufactured in the United StatesofAmerica by The Book Press, Brattleboro, Vermont FIRSTAMERICANEDITION Contents List ofMaps ix Foreword xi The Western Hemisphere Part I THE SOURCES OF WAR IN EUROPE 1 The Background 5 HITLER GERMANY EUROPE 2 From Versailles to the Soldiers' Oath: 1919-34 28 3 The Futile Opposition: 1934-8 47 4 Munich Prague Warsaw 70 . . . . . . Part II HITLER'S WARS: 1939-41 5 From Poland to the North Cape 100 6 The Fall ofFrance 114 7 The Battle of Britain 132 8 The Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East 145 9 Barbarossa 166 10 War with America 185 Part III EUROPE UNDER THE NAZIS 11 The New Order 211 12 Exploitation 242 13 Resistance 261 14 Revolution in the South-East 282 15 France 296 vi Contents Part IV THE MIDDLE GAME 16 The Muster against the Axis 327 17 The Clearing of North Africa 351 18 The End of Fascism 375 19 Hitler's German Enemies 390 20 Great Britain at War 404 Part V THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY: 1942-5 21 The Battle of the Seas
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