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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... February 1942 to advise Churchill. He held the appointment until the end of the war when he espoused the concept of the British Commonwealth. In the 1945 election he was another of the prominent Conservatives to lose his seat. Anami ...
... February 1942 to advise Churchill. He held the appointment until the end of the war when he espoused the concept of the British Commonwealth. In the 1945 election he was another of the prominent Conservatives to lose his seat. Anami ...
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... (February 1945). Antonov was one of a group of officers who came to the force after the Soviet Purges of 1938–39 thanks to the protection of SHAPOSHNIKOV. When Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941 Antonov was made Chief of Staff on the ...
... (February 1945). Antonov was one of a group of officers who came to the force after the Soviet Purges of 1938–39 thanks to the protection of SHAPOSHNIKOV. When Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941 Antonov was made Chief of Staff on the ...
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... February 1942 Bastico's appointment finally lapsed and he returned to obscurity in Italy. Bayerlein, General Fritz, 1899–1970 Bayerlein was a Panzer Commander who fought on all the fronts during the war. In 1940 after the Polish ...
... February 1942 Bastico's appointment finally lapsed and he returned to obscurity in Italy. Bayerlein, General Fritz, 1899–1970 Bayerlein was a Panzer Commander who fought on all the fronts during the war. In 1940 after the Polish ...
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... February 1941 he was made General Officer Commanding of the AIF (Australian Imperial Forces) in Malaya—his 8th Division was stationed at Johore. The Australians tried to hold the Japanese on the River Muar and scored some early success ...
... February 1941 he was made General Officer Commanding of the AIF (Australian Imperial Forces) in Malaya—his 8th Division was stationed at Johore. The Australians tried to hold the Japanese on the River Muar and scored some early success ...
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... February 1945 Bernadotte arranged for the transfer of Danish and Norwegian political prisoners and came into contact with HIMMLER. Himmler decided to approach him with terms to make a settlement with the Allies. On the night of 23–24 ...
... February 1945 Bernadotte arranged for the transfer of Danish and Norwegian political prisoners and came into contact with HIMMLER. Himmler decided to approach him with terms to make a settlement with the Allies. On the night of 23–24 ...
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