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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... aircraft thereby insuring production capacity. Aircraft production in the USA grew from less than 6000 per annum to 262,000 during the years 1940–44. World War II saw a massive growth in the USAAF and Arnold was behind every change. He ...
... aircraft thereby insuring production capacity. Aircraft production in the USA grew from less than 6000 per annum to 262,000 during the years 1940–44. World War II saw a massive growth in the USAAF and Arnold was behind every change. He ...
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... aircraft over Béthune and was captured. He spent the rest of the war in POW (Prisoner of War) camps. Badoglio, Field Marshal Pietro, 1871–1956 Badoglio was an Italian Field Marshal and a veteran of Italy's colonial wars having fought in ...
... aircraft over Béthune and was captured. He spent the rest of the war in POW (Prisoner of War) camps. Badoglio, Field Marshal Pietro, 1871–1956 Badoglio was an Italian Field Marshal and a veteran of Italy's colonial wars having fought in ...
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... Aircraft Production, with the task of increasing the output of desperately needed fighters. By ruthless simplification of production methods he did succeed in keeping the numbers of replacements ahead of losses during the Battle of ...
... Aircraft Production, with the task of increasing the output of desperately needed fighters. By ruthless simplification of production methods he did succeed in keeping the numbers of replacements ahead of losses during the Battle of ...
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... aircraft by the end of 1940. Then, however, the crisis was over. He subsequently acted as Minister of Supply (1941–41) and Lord Privy Seal (1943–45), and also as administrator of the Lend-Lease scheme in America in 1942. A 'political ...
... aircraft by the end of 1940. Then, however, the crisis was over. He subsequently acted as Minister of Supply (1941–41) and Lord Privy Seal (1943–45), and also as administrator of the Lend-Lease scheme in America in 1942. A 'political ...
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... aircraft, the finders and the illuminators. The finders found the target area and dropped flares over an area of ten miles radius. The illuminators pinpointed the target area and dropped a concentration of flares over it which gave the ...
... aircraft, the finders and the illuminators. The finders found the target area and dropped flares over an area of ten miles radius. The illuminators pinpointed the target area and dropped a concentration of flares over it which gave the ...
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