A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Language: English
Pages: 1208
ISBN: 0521618266
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In a new edition featuring a new preface, A World of Arms remains a classic of global history. Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and its colonies following the First World War, Gerhard Weinberg sheds new light on every aspect of World War II. Actions of the Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the war. More importantly, the global nature of the war is examined, with new insights into how events in one corner of the world helped affect events in often distant areas.
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Egypt as the main cause of Axis defeat,158 had lost the last portion of their African empire, and the Mufti could no longer expect to return to Jerusalem in Rommel's baggage car.159 At El Alamein, as before Moscow and at Midway, the Allies had won a victory that the Axis could hardly reverse. The war in the desert had created one popularly regarded hero, Erwin Rommel. A great tactician of armored forces, a hard driving military leader, an enthusiastic admirer of Hitler, he had been given
dignity of the exalted warrior. Masters at fighting enemy soldiers and sacking cities, they were and remained the crudest amateurs in matters of supply. As Japan moved to expand the war with China into a part of the world war initiated by Germany, she found fewer and fewer foreign ships that could be hired to carry goods for Japan, and this loss of shipping that could be hired as needed was not off-set by the 823,000 tons captured by the Japanese armed forces during the months of conquest
the military tried to kill him by placing a bomb on his plane in March, 1943, the detonator failed to work.44 Several other projects for killing Hitler also failed; that of July 20, 1944, being the most likely to succeed because it had been prepared with some care and included provision for a procedure to take over power in Germany and the occupied territories she still held at that time. By a narrow margin, the bomb itself went off but did not kill Hitler. It is an indication of the
II program included some novel features. A "GI Bill of Rights" emphasized educational benefits, which would enable literally millions of veterans to pursue higher education after the war, and home loan entitlements, which greatly eased the path to house-ownership for millions more. These massive investments by the federal government in those who had served the country in wartime had a major impact on post-war America, and they would provide some new openings for advances by both Blacks
Pacific, push the last stage of their offensive in China, and stand on the defensive elsewhere.198 A L L I E D A N D A X I S P L A N S F O R V I C T O R Y The British planning for the Pacific War looking toward its victorious conclusion over a bitterly fighting Japan was to produce little impact on that war but instead the most heated dispute between Churchill and his three Chiefs of Staff of the entire war in March, April and May of I944-199 Between Churchill's argument for a major
