Read History of the Second World War Online
Authors: Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Tags: #History, #Military, #General, #Other
The War in Outline, 1914-1918 (London, Faber, 1936)
Reputations: Ten Years After (London, John Murray, 1928; Boston, Little, Brown, 1928)
Through the Fog of War (London, Faber, 1938; New York, Random House, 1938)
World War II (1939-45)
The Other Side of The Hill (London, Cassell, 1951 — enlarged by some 60 per cent from the original edition of 1948 which alone was published in America, New York, Morrow, as The German Generals Talk, 1948)
A History of the Second World War (London, Cassell, 1970; New York, Putnam’s, 1970)
General
Why Don’t We Learn from History? (London, Allen & Unwin, 1944)
Contributions
The Strategy of Civilian Defence (ed. Adam Roberts. London, Faber, 1967. In America Civilian Resistance as a National Defense, Harrisburg, Stackpole, 1967)
Churchill — Four Faces and the Man (London, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1969. In America, Churchill Revised: A Critical Assessment, New York, Dial, 1969)
Edited Books
The Rommel Papers (London, Collins, 1953; New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1953)
The Letters of Private Wheeler (Napoleonic Wars) (London, Michael Joseph, 1951)
The Soviet Army (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956. In America The Red Army, Harcourt, Brace, 1956)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 - HOW WAR WAS PRECIPITATED
CHAPTER 2 - THE OPPOSING FORCES AT THE OUTBREAK
PART II THE OUTBREAK - 1939-1940
CHAPTER 3 - THE OVERRUNNING OF POLAND
CHAPTER 4 - ‘THE PHONEY WAR’
CHAPTER 5 - THE FINNISH WAR
CHAPTER 6 - THE OVERRUNNING OF NORWAY
CHAPTER 7 - THE OVERRUNNING OF THE WEST
CHAPTER 8 - THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
CHAPTER 9 - COUNTERSTROKE FROM EGYPT
CHAPTER 10 - THE CONQUEST OF ITALIAN EAST AFRICA
CHAPTER 11 - THE OVERRUNNING OF THE BALKANS AND CRETE
CHAPTER 12 - HITLER TURNS AGAINST RUSSIA
CHAPTER 13 - THE INVASION OF RUSSIA
CHAPTER 14 - ROMMEL’S ENTRY INTO AFRICA
CHAPTER 15 - ‘CRUSADER’
CHAPTER 16 - UPSURGE IN THE FAR EAST
CHAPTER 17 - JAPAN’S TIDE OF CONQUEST
CHAPTER 18 - THE TIDE TURNS IN RUSSIA
CHAPTER 19 - ROMMEL’S HIGH TIDE
CHAPTER 20 - THE TIDE TURNS IN AFRICA
CHAPTER 21 - ‘TORCH’ — THE NEW TIDE FROM THE ATLANTIC
CHAPTER 22 - THE RACE FOR TUNIS
CHAPTER 23 - THE TIDE TURNS IN THE PACIFIC
CHAPTER 24 - THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
CHAPTER 25 - THE CLEARANCE OF AFRICA
CHAPTER 26 - RE-ENTRY INTO EUROPE — THROUGH SICILY
CHAPTER 27 - THE INVASION OF ITALY — CAPITULATION AND CHECK
CHAPTER 28 - THE GERMAN EBB IN RUSSIA
CHAPTER 29 - THE JAPANESE EBB IN THE PACIFIC
CHAPTER 30 - CAPTURE OF ROME AND SECOND CHECK IN ITALY
CHAPTER 31 - THE LIBERATION OF FRANCE
CHAPTER 32 - THE LIBERATION OF RUSSIA
CHAPTER 33 - THE CRESCENDO OF BOMBING — THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY
CHAPTER 34 - THE LIBERATION OF THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC AND BURMA
CHAPTER 35 - HITLER’S ARDENNES COUNTERSTROKE
CHAPTER 36 - THE SWEEP FROM VISTULA TO ODER
CHAPTER 37 - THE COLLAPSE OF HITLER’S HOLD ON ITALY
CHAPTER 38 - THE COLLAPSE OF GERMANY
CHAPTER. 39 - THE COLLAPSE OF JAPAN
CHAPTER 40 - EPILOGUE
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