1999, ISBN: 0198662254

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[EAN: 9780198662259], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press], HISTORICAL BOOKS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS), Oxford University Press Historical Books (Oxford University Press) Oxford Companion to World War II (VG+/NM) (name inside)Manufacturer: Oxford University PressProduct Line: Historical Books (Oxford University Press)Type: HardcoverCopyright Date: 1995Author: I.C.B. Dear, M.R.D. FootPage Count: 1342Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+/NM - name inside. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:Despite Korea, despite Vietnam, despite a dozen smaller conflicts, a generation of Americans refers to World War II simply as "the War." Indeed, there has been nothing like it in human history: a single war that spanned three continents--a war which saw more men and women under arms, moredeaths, and more destruction than any other. Now Oxford University Press provides the definitive one-volume reference to this cataclysmic event.The Oxford Companion to World War II brings together an international team of 140 experts to cover every aspect of the conduct and experience of the conflict, from grand strategic decision making to the struggles of daily life. More than 1,700 entries--ranging from brief identifications to in-deptharticles on complex subjects--bring the far-flung elements and events of the war into focus. Here are essays on overarching themes and broad topics, such as the origins of the war, diplomacy, the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere, and the Final Solution. Military campaigns and battles, ofcourse, receive extensive attention: entries include the Fall of France, Operation Barbarossa, and the Battle of Midway, as well as such smaller events as the sinking of the Scharnhorst and the fall of Wake Island. Scores of analytical biographies range from the national leaders--Hitler, Stalin,Tojo, Roosevelt, Churchill--to an array of military and political figures, from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Ho Chi Minh, from Marshal Timoshenko to General von Manstein. World War II was also an era of technological leaps, covert exploits, and horrific atrocities--and the Companion gives thoroughcoverage to each, with articles on weapons ranging from tanks to E-boats to rockets, on intelligence organizations (ranging from the O.S.S. to Smersh), and on the German Einstatzgruppen and Todt organization.The Companion also provides exceptional coverage beyond the military and political spheres, revealing the war as it affected the millions of noncombatants. In addition to exploring the economics and social policies of belligerent states, the Companion addresses such topics as children--explaininghow hundreds of thousands were evacuated from threatened cities, thrown into combat, killed by bombing raids, or made into orphans. Indeed, the Companion's emphasis on the social history and daily experience of the war makes it the most complete one-volume reference on this critical chapter inhistory.In addition to thousands of entries, conveniently arranged in an a-to-z format, the book also features hundreds of maps, charts, tables, and evocative photographs. There is no finer resource on the war that shaped the modern world., Books<

1995, ISBN: 9780198662259

New York, NY, U.S.A. : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995. Fine/Unknown. Large quarto, hardcover, fine in lightly edgeworn black pictorial dj. 1343 Pages. Massive encyclopedic … Mehr…

New York, NY, U.S.A. : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995. Fine/Unknown. Large quarto, hardcover, fine in lightly edgeworn black pictorial dj. 1343 Pages. Massive encyclopedic reference; events, places, and people alphabetically arranged. Introduction by M. R. Foot, Illustrated with 111 b/w maps and 9 color maps, plus photographs throughout., New York, NY, U.S.A. : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995, 5<

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1995, ISBN: 9780198662259

Oxford University Press, 1995-05-11. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.5000 in x 9.7000 in x 7.6000 in., Oxford University Press, 1995-05-11, 3