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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... January 1941 he was appointed 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 ...
... January 1941 he was appointed 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 ...
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... January 1941 he asked Hitler for permission to suppress the Iron Guards who had been persecuting the Jews and committing other atrocities, and Hitler readily assented. Antonescu secured his hold on Rumania by using the army to put its ...
... January 1941 he asked Hitler for permission to suppress the Iron Guards who had been persecuting the Jews and committing other atrocities, and Hitler readily assented. Antonescu secured his hold on Rumania by using the army to put its ...
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... January 1943 when it was agreed that both methods would be adopted. He was a popular figure whose nickname 'Hap' or 'Happy' was well- deserved. He managed to develop a working relationship with the solitary Chief of Air Staff, PORTAL ...
... January 1943 when it was agreed that both methods would be adopted. He was a popular figure whose nickname 'Hap' or 'Happy' was well- deserved. He managed to develop a working relationship with the solitary Chief of Air Staff, PORTAL ...
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... January 1947 which promised the election of a Constituent Assembly 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 ...
... January 1947 which promised the election of a Constituent Assembly 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 ...
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... that was left was to complete the encirclement of German Army Group North. In January 1945 his Group occupied Memel and was then ordered to take Königsberg. This Balbo, Italo Baruch, Bernard proved a stumbling block and Bagramyan 8 B.
... that was left was to complete the encirclement of German Army Group North. In January 1945 his Group occupied Memel and was then ordered to take Königsberg. This Balbo, Italo Baruch, Bernard proved a stumbling block and Bagramyan 8 B.
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