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Author | : Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521558792 |
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Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front
Author | : Andrew Feinstein |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1429932716 |
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The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Now a major PBS documentary "An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging."--Arundhati Roy Andrew Feinstein reveals the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history--between the British and Saudi governments---to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the current $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information, The Shadow World takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking.
Author | : Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1210 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0511252935 |
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In a new edition featuring a new preface, A World of Arms remains a classic of global history. Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and its colonies following the First World War, Gerhard Weinberg sheds new light on every aspect of World War II. Actions of the Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the war. More importantly, the global nature of the war is examined, with new insights into how events in one corner of the world helped affect events in often distant areas.
Author | : Reader's Digest Association |
Publisher | : Reader's Digest Association |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780895773333 |
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A comprehensive, illustrated history of World War II which includes more than 50 maps and 800 photographs.
Author | : Maury Klein |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608194094 |
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
Author | : Ian F. W. Beckett |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473816629 |
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The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating insights into its social history during one of the bloodiest wars.
Author | : Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1216 |
Release | : 2005-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521618267 |
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A truly global account of WWII - the war that encompassed six continents.
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476764522 |
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An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.
Author | : Jonathan A. Grant |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674024427 |
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The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialized nations subsist by supplying their own states' arsenals, causing them to seek markets beyond their own borders. Challenging the traditional view of arms dealers as agents of their own countries, Jonathan Grant asserts that these firms pursued their own economic interests while convincing their homeland governments that weapons sales delivered national prestige and could influence foreign countries. Industrial and banking interests often worked counter to diplomatic interests as arms sales could potentially provide nonindustrial states with the means to resist imperialism or pursue their own imperial ambitions. It was not mere coincidence that the only African country not conquered by Europeans, Ethiopia, purchased weapons from Italy prior to an attempted Italian invasion. From the rise of Remington and Winchester during the American Civil War, to the German firm Krupp's negotiations with the Russian government, to an intense military modernization contest between Chile and Argentina, Grant vividly chronicles how an arms trade led to an all-out arms race, and ultimately to war.
Author | : William Broyles |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0292783396 |
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Reviews of the Knopf edition: "A wonderful book—fresh and intelligent. Broyles's eye for Vietnam, then and now, is unerring." —Peter Jennings "[A] superbly written, often moving story of Broyles' journey back to the killing ground in Vietnam where he once served as a Marine lieutenant. A cool, clear meditation that stings the heart." —Kirkus Reviews "A first-rate piece of work, infused with an ideal American common decency and common sense." —Kurt Vonnegut "Exceptional and memorable." —Gay Talese