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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... Cabinet and had led the military clique which brought TOJO to power. After Tojo's fall, Anami was called upon to join SUZUKI's 'peace' Cabinet as War Minister. He was unable to admit to himself that Japan would lose the war and wanted ...
... Cabinet and had led the military clique which brought TOJO to power. After Tojo's fall, Anami was called upon to join SUZUKI's 'peace' Cabinet as War Minister. He was unable to admit to himself that Japan would lose the war and wanted ...
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... Cabinet and had been British Home Secretary in CHAMBERLAIN's cabinet. His name became a household word when he introduced a scheme to build special steel shelters—called the Anderson shelter—to protect 20,000,000 people in 1940. As Lord ...
... Cabinet and had been British Home Secretary in CHAMBERLAIN's cabinet. His name became a household word when he introduced a scheme to build special steel shelters—called the Anderson shelter—to protect 20,000,000 people in 1940. As Lord ...
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... and independence within a year. Aung San returned in triumph but this was short-lived since he was assassinated along with six members of his cabinet on 19 July 1947. Bader, Group Captain Sir Douglas, 1910– 1983 Bader was a 7.
... and independence within a year. Aung San returned in triumph but this was short-lived since he was assassinated along with six members of his cabinet on 19 July 1947. Bader, Group Captain Sir Douglas, 1910– 1983 Bader was a 7.
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... Cabinet decided that the Report would not be implemented and only introduced plans for a national medical service, training benefits and child allowances. Beveridge had always stood above party politics but in 1944 he stood as a Liberal ...
... Cabinet decided that the Report would not be implemented and only introduced plans for a national medical service, training benefits and child allowances. Beveridge had always stood above party politics but in 1944 he stood as a Liberal ...
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... cabinet. An Emergency Powers Act was passed in 1940 which gave Bevin dictatorial powers to help mobilize manpower. He suspended the 48-hour week and the right to strike. Workmen were forbidden to leave or change jobs without official ...
... cabinet. An Emergency Powers Act was passed in 1940 which gave Bevin dictatorial powers to help mobilize manpower. He suspended the 48-hour week and the right to strike. Workmen were forbidden to leave or change jobs without official ...
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