DK - World War II Map by Map

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FOREWORD BY PETER SNOW SMITHSONIAN WORLD WAR II MAP BY MAP US_002-003_Title.indd 3 27/05/19 2:13 PM ...

CONTENTS DK LONDON Senior Editor Hugo Wilkinson Project Editors Shashwati Tia Sarkar, Miezan van Zyl Editor Polly Boyd US Editor ...

DK INDIA Senior Editor Rupa Rao Assistant Editors Aashirwad Jain, Sonali Jindal Picture Researchers Akash Jain, Surya Sankash Sa ...

198 Operation Market Garden 200 Battles at Germany’s gate 202 Greece and Yugoslavia 204 War against Japan 206 Operation Cartwhee ...

SMITHSONIAN Established in 1846, the Smithsonian—the world’s largest museum and research complex—includes 19 museums and galleri ...

FOREWORD This is the most compelling work of military geography I’ve ever seen. It’s a testament to the titanic scale of the con ...

the astonishing turnaround after Stalingrad in 1942–1943. Perhaps most dramatically of all, we can see the greatest seaborne inv ...

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THE SLIDE TO WAR 1918– MOUNTING TENSIONS AFTER WORLD WAR I LED TO INSTABILITY AND THE RISE OF EXTREMIST NATIONALISM IN EUROPE, W ...

12 THE SLIDE TO WAR 1918– THE SEEDS OF WAR The world of the 1920s and 1930s was scarred by ideological divisions, social conflic ...

THE SEEDS OF WAR 13 political force. Marshaling German resentment against the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler linked solving German ...

◁ War children This poster from 1917 asks “Have you room in your hearts for us?,” appealing on behalf of the many thousands of F ...

THE LEGACY OF WORLD WAR I 15 2 Austria-Hungary border, 1914 THE BREAKUP OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE 1918– The Hapsburg Empire ...

16 THE SLIDE TO WAR 1918– CANADA GREENLAND CHINA INDIA AUSTRALIA USA MEXICO CUBA ICELAND SIAM SOUTH-WEST AFRICA ALGERIA LIBYA MO ...

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 17 CANADA GREENLAND CHINA INDIA AUSTRALIA USA MEXICO CUBA ICELAND SIAM SOUTH-WEST AFRICA ALGERIA LIBYA MON ...

18 THE SLIDE TO WAR 1918– ATLANTIC OCEAN M ed it er r an ea n S e a B a l t i c S e a North Sea A d r ia t ic (^) S e a Rhi ne E ...

EUROPE OF THE DICTATORS 19 ATLANTIC OCEAN M ed it er ra n ean S ea B a l t i c S e a North Sea A d r ia t ic (^) S e a Rhi ne El ...

20 THE SLIDE TO WAR 1918 – Defeat in World War I had left Germany poor, resentful, and polarized between the political extremes ...