Description
Book SynopsisBased on the Second World War, this narrative poem, with its evocative drawings, captures the devastation of this global war and the dramatic events that took place. It is the author's dedication to the courage displayed by men and women of every participating nation.
Table of Contents1 The Approach of War 9 2 Blitzkreig 15 3 The Fall of France 23 4 The Battle of Britain 37 5 The Greek Disaster 47 6 Barbarossa 61 7 The Japanese Onslaught 73 8 Axis Occupation 85 9 The War at Sea 91 10 Midway 101 11 The Dieppe Raid 111 12 Bomber Command 117 13 El Alamein 125 14 Stalingrad 141 15 Guadalcanal 155 16 The Clearance of North Africa 161 17 The Warsaw Ghetto 171 18 Crisis in the Atlantic 177 19 The Dambusters’ Raid 187 20 The Battle of Kursk 193 21 The Fall of Mussolini 201 22 Jean Moulin 209 23 The Bombing of Hamburg 21724 Allied Advances 221 25 The Teheran Conference 227 26 The Siege of Leningrad 235 27 Monte Cassino 241 28 Tito’s Partisans 255 29 The Defence of India 261 30 The Normandy Invasion 273 31 The Marianas 291 32 The Stauffenberg Plot 301 33 Bagration 311 34 Victory in Normandy 315 35 The Warsaw Rising 325 36 The Liberation of Paris 333 37 Arnhem 339 38 The Battle of Leyte Gulf 351 39 The Battle of the Bulge 359 40 Victory in Burma 369 41 The Yalta Conference 379 42 Iwo Jima 385 43 The Fall of Nazi Germany 393 44 Hiroshima 405 Source of Words in Quotation Marks 413 Main Works Consulted 415
