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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... directly with KESSELRING and the German High Command. He took over command in early December 1942 in Tunisia and secured lines of communications with Arnold, General Henry 'Hap' Attlee, Prime Minister Clement Rommel on 5.
... directly with KESSELRING and the German High Command. He took over command in early December 1942 in Tunisia and secured lines of communications with Arnold, General Henry 'Hap' Attlee, Prime Minister Clement Rommel on 5.
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... December 1931 he lost both legs in a flying accident and was invalided out of the RAF. He argued his way past the RAF Volunteer Reserve Medical Board and in November 1939 was flying again. In June 1940 he was given command of Fighter ...
... December 1931 he lost both legs in a flying accident and was invalided out of the RAF. He argued his way past the RAF Volunteer Reserve Medical Board and in November 1939 was flying again. In June 1940 he was given command of Fighter ...
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... (December 1945–July 1946). He returned to Burma to face further imprisonment under the A Nu regime. Bao Dai, Emperor of Assam, 1913– Bao Dai was the Emperor of Assam (a province of Indo-China) from 1925 until 1945. (Until he reached ...
... (December 1945–July 1946). He returned to Burma to face further imprisonment under the A Nu regime. Bao Dai, Emperor of Assam, 1913– Bao Dai was the Emperor of Assam (a province of Indo-China) from 1925 until 1945. (Until he reached ...
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... and Mutual Assistance with the USSR in December 1943. At the end of the war he obtained agreement to massive transfers of Czechoslovakia's Germans to Ben-Gurion, David Beria, Lavrenty Germany which made for stability in 11.
... and Mutual Assistance with the USSR in December 1943. At the end of the war he obtained agreement to massive transfers of Czechoslovakia's Germans to Ben-Gurion, David Beria, Lavrenty Germany which made for stability in 11.
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... December 1942 it was widely acclaimed as the foundation for a future social welfare system. It provided benefits for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death. However Churchill and his Cabinet decided that ...
... December 1942 it was widely acclaimed as the foundation for a future social welfare system. It provided benefits for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death. However Churchill and his Cabinet decided that ...
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