Table of Contents

Background To War
Europe 1914–18
Europe after the Peace Treaties 1920–21
The Depression in Europe
Fascist States in Europe
Political Agreements
Hitler’s Annexations

The European Theatre
The Blitzkrieg
Invasion of Poland
The Winter War
Battle of Suomussalmi
The Phoney War: German and Allied Plans
Denmark and Norway
Panzer Strike through the Ardennes
Invasion of the West
Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo
Fall of France
Battle of Britain
The Blitz

The Air War in Europe
The Bombing of Europe
Thousand Bomber Raid
Strategic Bombing
Dambusters Raid
The Schweinfurt Raids

The War in the Atlantic
Battle of the Atlantic I
Battle of the Atlantic II
Battle of the Atlantic III
Battle of the Atlantic IV
Battle of the Atlantic V

North Africa and the Mediterranean
Campaign in East Africa
Attack on Taranto
Operation Compass
Battle of Matapan
The Balkans
The Conquest of Greece and Crete
Operation Sonnenblume
Iraq, Syria and Persia 1941
Operation Crusader
Operation Crusader: Battle of Sidi Rezegh
Rommel Returns
Gazala and the Loss of Tobruk
Operation Pedestal
The Eve of Battle, October 1942
El Alamein: Operation Lightfoot
El Alamein: Operation Supercharge
The Mediterranean
Operation Torch
British Advance to Tunisia
Kasserine Pass
Axis Defeat in Tunisia
Capture of Tunis

The War In Italy
Operational Plans
Invasion of Sicily
Landings at Salerno
Southern Italy
Monte Cassino
Landings at Anzio
Liberation of Rome and Advance North
The End in Italy

The Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa
Dispersion of Soviet Industry
Operation Typhoon
Siege of Leningrad
Battle for Moscow
Sevastopol
Yugoslavia 1941–43
The Caucasus
The Battle for Stalingrad
Battle of Kharkov, January–February 1943
Eastern Front, March 1943
Battle of Kharkov, March 1943
Eastern Front, July 1943
Operation Citadel
Battle of Prokhorovka
Soviet Advance to Dnieper
Liberating the Ukraine and the Crimea
Leningrad and the Karelian Front
Karelian Front, September–October 1944
Operation Bagration
Soviet Advance into Poland
The Warsaw Rising
Soviet Advance into Romania and Hungary
Liberation of Greece
Battle of Budapest and Vienna
Advance to the Oder
Encirclement of Berlin
Battle for Berlin

The Western Front
Global Strategy 1941–45
COSSAC Plan
D-Day Landing Plan and Objectives
Breakout Plan
Falaise Pocket
The Liberation of Paris
Invasion of Southern France
Allied Advance
Market Garden: The Air Lift
Airborne Drop Zones
First Airborne Division Landing Zones
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge Counterattack
Advance to the Rhine
Germany Defeated

The War in the Pacific
Revolution in China
The Expansion of Japan
Hawaii Operation,
Track of Japanese Attack Force
Pearl Harbor: The Japanese Attack
Japanese Expansion
Invasion of Malaya
Capture of Singapore
Japanese Invasion of the Philippines
Manila and Bataan
Bataan and Corregidor
Japanese Invasion of the Dutch East Indies
Japanese Invasion of Burma
Indian Ocean Raid
Battle of the Coral Sea
Admiral Yamamoto’s Plans to Seize Midway
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway I
Battle of Midway II
US Landings and the Battle of Savo Island
US Landings at Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands Sea Battles
Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942
Guadalcanal, 14–15 November 1942
New Guinea
Operation Cartwheel The Aleutians
Chindits in Burma
Tarawa Atoll
Makin Atoll
Second Arakan Campaign
Japanese Invasion of India
Pacific Situation to October 1944
Carrier Raids in Central Pacific
Battle of the Philippine Sea I
Battle of the Philippine Sea II
The Saipan Landings
Guam
Tinian
The Battle of the Philippines: Leyte Gulf
Liberation of the Philippines
War in China
Allied Recapture of Burma,
August–December 1944
Allied Recapture of Burma,
December 1944–May 1945
Landings on Iwo Jima
The Fall of Okinawa
Pacific Situation to August 1945
Bombing of Japan 161
Operations Against Japan 1945
Japanese Merchant Shipping Routes
Japanese Merchant Shipping Losses 1941–43
Japanese Merchant Shipping Losses 1944–45
The Japanese Empire
Allied Invasion Plan
Nagasaki
Soviet Invasion of Manchuria

The Aftermath of War
Mobilization for War 1939–45
Original Members of the United Nations
The Casualties of War

Index

About the Author

General editor Chris Bishop was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II, and author of German Campaigns of World War II, The Rise of Hitler's Third Reich, SS: Hitler's Foreign Divisions and The Military Atlas of World War II, among many other military history titles.