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A Short History of World War I (Quill, 1981), A Short History of World War II (Quill, 1980), and a A Short History of the Korean War (Quill, 1990), Stokesbury is a professor of history at Acadia University. He lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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ALSO BY JAMES L. STOKESBURY

Masters of the Art of Command

(with Martin Blumenson)

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A SHORT HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. Copyright © 1980 by James L. Stokesbury. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Prologue

1. Peace and Rearmament

2. The European Democracies

3. The Revisionist States

4. The Unknown Quantities

5. The Prewar Series of Crises

Part II: The Expanding War

6. Blitzkrieg in Poland

7. Northern Adventures

8. The Fall of France

9. The Battle of Britain

10. The United States and the War

11. The Battle of the Atlantic

12. War in the Mediterranean

13. The Invasion of Russia

14. Japan and the Road to Pearl Harbor

Part III: “The Hour When Earth’s Foundations Fled…”

15. Allied Conferences and Plans

16. Occupied Europe

17. The Japanese Offensives in the Pacific

18. The Battles for North Africa

19. Crisis in Russia

20. Allied Strategic Problems: Upgrading the Pacific

21. The European Resistance Movements

22. The Strategic Bombing Campaign

Part IV: Toward The Elusive Victory

23. The Collapse and Invasion of Italy

24. The Normandy Invasion and the Campaign of France

25. Winning in the Pacific

26. The Collapse of Germany

27. The Collapse of Japan

28. Winning and Losing

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