基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. Charting the war's political, military and social history through 160 new maps, this latest atlas in Gilbert's acclaimed series covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland, Stalingrad, and the concentration camps, to the bombing of Dresden and D-Day.
Full Description
In The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War, Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war's political, military, economic and social history through 247 maps. Each map has been specially drawn for this atlas, many of them covering topics that have not previously been mapped. The atlas covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the defeat of Japan in August 1945, including the Blitz, the Fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the naval Battles of the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, Dieppe, Stalingrad, Midway, the Normandy Landings, the bombing of Warsaw, London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Burma Railway, concentration camps and slave labour camps, and prisoner-of-war camps in Europe, the Americas and the Far East.Focusing on the human - and inhuman - aspects of the war, The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War includes examination of:Military, naval and air campaigns on all the war frontsThe war on land, at sea and in the airThe economic and social aspects of the warThe global nature of the war, in armed combat and in sufferingThe impact of the war on civilians, both under occupation, and as deportees and refugees The aftermath of the war: the post-war political and national boundaries; war graves, and the human cost of the war on every continent.
Contents
Introduction. Acknowledgements Section 1Poland to the Fall of France Section 2: Britain Alone, and its Allies Section 3: The Soviet Union Becomes an Allied Power Section 4: Japan and the United States Enter the War Section 5: The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942 and Beyond Section 6: The Unarmed and the Civilians Section 7: Total War Section 8: Year of Decision: 1944 Section 9: The Defeat of Germany Section 10: The Defeat of Japan Section 11: Global War. Aftermath. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.
