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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... Commander of the I Corps and sent to Burma, where he could do little against the Japanese air superiority, except withdraw troops to India. Appointed Commander in Chief in August 1942 by Churchill he directed the great campaigns in ...
... Commander of the I Corps and sent to Burma, where he could do little against the Japanese air superiority, except withdraw troops to India. Appointed Commander in Chief in August 1942 by Churchill he directed the great campaigns in ...
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... Chief of General Staff at the end of the war (February 1945). Antonov was one of a group of officers who came to the ... Commander in Chief of the Italian Armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Aosta, a cousin of the King of Italy, undertook ...
... Chief of General Staff at the end of the war (February 1945). Antonov was one of a group of officers who came to the ... Commander in Chief of the Italian Armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Aosta, a cousin of the King of Italy, undertook ...
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... Commander of Army Group Afrika but he never received enough supplies and fought a depressing retreat until he had ... Chief of the Air Corps and became Chief of Air Staff in 1938. Although no funds were available he persuaded the US ...
... Commander of Army Group Afrika but he never received enough supplies and fought a depressing retreat until he had ... Chief of the Air Corps and became Chief of Air Staff in 1938. Although no funds were available he persuaded the US ...
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... Commanders in the British Army. He had made his career as a soldier in the Indian Army and had been brought home to command the IV Corps in 1939. He spent some time as Commander in Chief in northern Norway and of Southern Command in ...
... Commanders in the British Army. He had made his career as a soldier in the Indian Army and had been brought home to command the IV Corps in 1939. He spent some time as Commander in Chief in northern Norway and of Southern Command in ...
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... command of Fighter Squadron 242, which was manned by Canadians. His ... Chief of Staff after the war, governor of Libya 1928–33, commanded the army ... Commander of First Baltic Front, which became known as the Samland Group in ...
... command of Fighter Squadron 242, which was manned by Canadians. His ... Chief of Staff after the war, governor of Libya 1928–33, commanded the army ... Commander of First Baltic Front, which became known as the Samland Group in ...
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