A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

No one present could doubt that what was being planned was, indeed, mass murder. Adolf Eichmann of the SS, who was present and w ...

opportunities for the non-privileged Jews (those not married to Christian spouses with offspring) to survive were so slight as t ...

The importance and nature of resistance to the Nazis within Germany itself and in Nazi- dominated Europe varied enormously. Cons ...

Stalin had the last word. The Polish government in exile in London, and the Home Army, which took its orders from London, attemp ...

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right to subordinate and exploit the conquered peoples. Everywhere propaganda and indoctrina- tion sought to reinforce the super ...

caused 125,000 casualties. In May and June 1945 the bomber offensive spread to sixty other major towns throughout Japan. On 6 Au ...

Soviet Union suffered the most: at least 28 mil- lion military and civilian people died – a stagger- ing figure. Germany’s dead ...

The war that began in September 1939 was a European war, in contrast to the world war that ensued when the Soviet Union, the US ...

of 1914–18. Behind the fighting fronts, the indus- trial war was waged, pouring out guns, tanks, air- craft and ships. One of th ...

Germany. Allied superiority was only potential in the sense that it depended on Britain and Russia not being defeated. The US wo ...

Iraq and its eastern neighbour, Persia, were the major suppliers of oil in the region. Britain’s Middle Eastern dominance was se ...

and 2,700 planes. This included fourteen Romanian divisions. With the Panzers racing ahead in best Blitzkrieg tradition, the Sov ...

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the failures of military intelligence before the war. Instead of the expected 5,000 tanks, the Soviets disposed of 20,000. Goebb ...

lost. Stalin, expecting the Germans to renew their main drive on Moscow, concentrated Russian reserves on the central front. Ins ...

that the West was deliberately prolonging the war to weaken the Soviet Union in the bloodbath of the eastern front in order to d ...

on behalf of Britain, and Roosevelt personally acquiesced too, to the Soviet Union’s retaining eastern Poland as far as the Curz ...

troops prisoner. The whole of south-east Asia had fallen under Japanese domination. British rule seemed to be threatened now at ...

was based on the belief that despite the tem- porary weakness of China and the possibility of revolutions and civil war, 450 mil ...