World War II Day by Day

This comprehensive single volume provides a day-by-day chronological survey of the greatest conflict of all time. The armistice that ended World war I mat have seemed to be full stop at the time, today we see that it was simply a breathing space for two battered adversaries. The humiliation of Germany at Versailles helped the rise of fascism that led to another of the Armistice. The Fascinating story of the conflict is itemised in the daily record of events, the rush to war in 1938, the surprise attack and dismemberment of Poland by the strangest of bedfellows Nazi Germany and Communist USSR, the Blitzkrieg of the west and the fall of France, the Battle of Britain and U-boat war against the lifeline of the Atlantic convoys the see-saw war in north Africa, the attack on Russia in 1941 the globalisation of the conflict following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, the darkest hours of 1942 as Nazi and Japanese forces reached the apogee of their triumph. Then the turning of the tide the great carrier battles and bloody island hopping campaign in the Pacific, the Allied advances from North Africa on to Sicily, Italy, France the Low Countries in to Germany itself the devastating attrition of the Eastern Front before the Soviet forces inexorably pushed the Nazis back to Berlin the final denouments suicide in the fuhrer bunker atom bombs over Japan. Well illustrated, attractively laid out, World War II Day by Day is one of a series that includestitles on World War I and more recent conflicts.