Who's Who in World War IIJohn Keegan Routledge, 11/09/2002 - 192 من الصفحات First Published in 2004. World War II, unlike World War I, was truly a global conflict, fought in every one of the five continents, from the Caribbean to the South China Sea, from New Guinea to the North Cape, and by combatants from every continental region, Latin America, the Balkans, Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa as well as from Europe and North America. It was also, as World War I had not been, a conflict of ideologies. Its dramatis personae was therefore of a peculiar richness, including not only soldiers and statesmen of orthodox background but three dictators of world stature—Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, demagogues like Goebbels and ideologues like Alfred Rosenberg, politicians of charismatic power, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, prophets of national renaissance, like Charles de Gaulle, and of national liberation like Mahatma Gandhi, showmen, mountebanks, martyrs, heroes, traitors and quislings—a word we owe to the politics of World War II. This book attempts to assemble the most important among this vast cast of characters, from every country and from every sphere of responsibility— or irresponsibility—and to convey not only the salient facts about the life and career of each but also the flavor of their individuality. |
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... Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF). Alexander became the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. The Allied campaign in Italy was drawn out and handicapped by the fact that Overlord and the campaign in France had top priority ...
... Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF). Alexander became the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. The Allied campaign in Italy was drawn out and handicapped by the fact that Overlord and the campaign in France had top priority ...
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... Allied success. In 1944 he was made a full General of the Army and when the USAAF was made into a separate force equal to the Army and Navy, he was its first Five-Star General. Attlee, Prime Minister Clement, 1883– 1967 Leader of the ...
... Allied success. In 1944 he was made a full General of the Army and when the USAAF was made into a separate force equal to the Army and Navy, he was its first Five-Star General. Attlee, Prime Minister Clement, 1883– 1967 Leader of the ...
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... Allied invasion of Europe. He was paid some £300,000 (US$1,200,000 in the currency of the time) in bank notes but British embassy officials became suspicious and Bazna disappeared. The information he had given the Germans was treated ...
... Allied invasion of Europe. He was paid some £300,000 (US$1,200,000 in the currency of the time) in bank notes but British embassy officials became suspicious and Bazna disappeared. The information he had given the Germans was treated ...
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... Allied Services. He was a respected figure whom CHURCHILL called into his administration to be Undersecretary of labor. When his Report came out in December 1942 it was widely acclaimed as the foundation for a future social welfare ...
... Allied Services. He was a respected figure whom CHURCHILL called into his administration to be Undersecretary of labor. When his Report came out in December 1942 it was widely acclaimed as the foundation for a future social welfare ...
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... Allied Land Forces, under General MACARTHUR's overall command. He faced a constant stream of complaints from MacArthur about the Australians' fighting ability but he did not stand up to them. In September he had to take personal command ...
... Allied Land Forces, under General MACARTHUR's overall command. He faced a constant stream of complaints from MacArthur about the Australians' fighting ability but he did not stand up to them. In September he had to take personal command ...
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