The Meaning of the Second World War
by Ernest Mandel
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The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed Late Capitalism) outlines his view that the war was in fact a combination of several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony. In concise chapters, Mandel examines the role played by technology, science, show more logistics, weapons and propaganda. Throughout, he weaves a consideration of the military strategy of the opposing states into his analytical narrative of the war and its results. show lessTags
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- The Meaning of the Second World War
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- Winston Churchill; Adolf Hitler; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Charles de Gaulle (show all 7); Benito Mussolini
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- Operation Barbarossa; Operation Uranus; Operation Overlord; Operation Sea Lion; Operation Torch; Pearl Harbor (show all 12); Stalingrad; Kursk; Guadalcanal Campaign; Iwo Jima; Leyte, Philippine invasion; Yalta Conference
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