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ii 1111 The Second World War 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 Bradley Lightbody presents a fascinating and accessible history of the Second World 4 War in its global context. Examining the war around general themes from ambition 5 and advance, through expansion and containment, to rout and victory, The Second 6 World War covers all the major theatres and events of the war. 7 8 From the origins and background to the war to its aftermath and legacy, The Second 9 World War covers: 20 1 (cid:1) The pre-war ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan 2 (cid:1) The outbreak of the war in Poland 3 (cid:1) The ‘Phoney War’ 4 (cid:1) Blitzkrieg, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain 5 (cid:1) Pearl Harbor 6 (cid:1) The War in North Africa and El Alamein 7 (cid:1) The Final Solution 8 (cid:1) D-Day, the Liberation of Italy and deliverance from the Concentration Camps 9 (cid:1) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 30 1 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the global ambitions and the global 2 warfare that was the Second World War, making it essential reading for all students 3 of twentieth-century world history. Reflecting on the immense social, economic and 4 political impact of the war, The Second World War bears witness to the human cost 5 of the most destructive war in world history. 6 7 Bradley Lightbody is a lead consultant with The Quiet Associates, a firm of educa- 8 tion consultants and College UK. He was, until recently, Head of History at Dewsbury 9 College, West Yorkshire. He has published previously on twentieth-century world 40 history, The Cold War (1999). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 118 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1111 The Second World War 2 3 Ambitions to Nemesis 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 Bradley Lightbody 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 118 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 First published 2004 4 by Routledge 5 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 6 Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 7 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 8 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 9 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. 20 1 © 2004 Bradley Lightbody 2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced 3 or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, 4 or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in 5 writing from the publishers. 6 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data 7 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library 8 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 9 Lightbody, Bradley. The Second World War : ambitions to nemesis/Bradley Lightbody. – 30 1st ed. 1 p. cm. 2 Includes bibliographical references. 1. World War, 1939–1945. I. Title: 2nd World War. II. Title. 3 D743.L54 2004 4 940.53 – dc22 2003025507 5 ISBN 0-203-64458-1 Master e-book ISBN 6 7 8 ISBN 0-203-67308-5 (Adobe eReader Format) 9 ISBN 0–415–22404–7 (hbk) 40 ISBN 0–415–22405–5 (pbk) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 My immense thanks to Carol, 4 Emma and Stuart for their 5 patience, understanding, and the 6 regular supply of coffee, during 7 weekends taken up with research 8 9 and writing. 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 118 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1111 Contents 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 List of maps x 4 Introduction 1 5 6 7 PART 1 8 Ambition 3 9 20 1 Rising sun 3 1 2 Weimar revision 10 2 3 3 Fascist Italy 17 4 5 4 Nazi challenge 25 6 5 Counter-challenge 33 7 8 9 PART 2 30 Outbreak 39 1 2 6 Case White: Poland 39 3 4 7 The phoney war 46 5 8 The Winter War 51 6 7 8 PART 3 9 Advance 57 40 1 9 Copenhagen to Narvik 57 2 3 10 Blitzkrieg in the west 64 4 5 11 Fall of France 70 6 12 Battle of Britain 77 7 118 13 Italy on the march 83 viii Contents 1 PART 4 2 Expansion 91 3 4 14 North Africa and the Balkans 91 5 15 Battle of the Atlantic 98 6 7 16 Barbarossa 104 8 9 17 Final Solution 114 0 18 Pearl Harbor 121 1 2 19 Pacific hegemony 127 1 4 PART 5 5 Containment 135 6 7 20 Midway 135 8 9 21 El Alamein 140 20 1 22 Stalingrad 145 2 3 PART 6 4 Contraction 155 5 6 23 Clearance of North Africa 155 7 8 24 Defeat on the Eastern Front 161 9 25 Bomber offensive 167 30 1 26 Kriegsmarine repulsed 175 2 27 Invasion of Italy 181 3 4 28 Pacific reversal 188 5 6 7 PART 7 8 Rout 195 9 40 29 Fall of Rome 195 1 30 Rollback on the Eastern Front 201 2 3 31 Overlord 210 4 32 Islands 220 5 6 33 Stalemate on the West Wall 227 7 8 34 The Holocaust 237 Contents ix 1111 PART 8 2 Nemesis 245 3 4 35 Mussolini’s last stand 245 5 36 Götterdämmerung 249 6 7 37 The bomb 260 8 9 10 PART 9 1 Reconstruction 267 2 3 38 Ideals and post-war realities 267 4 5 6 Chronology 273 7 Index 286 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 118

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Bradley Lightbody presents a fascinating and accessible history of the Second World War in its global context. Examining the war around general themes from ambition and advance, through expansion and containment, to rout and victory, The Second World War covers all the major theatres and events of t
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