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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... command the last corps to remain on the beach. In 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 ...
... command the last corps to remain on the beach. In 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 ...
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... General Sir Kenneth, 1891– 1959 A brigade and divisional Commander in the Dunkirk campaign, Anderson was appointed in 1942 to command the British 1st Army which was to undertake the invasion of North Africa under EISENHOWER's command ...
... General Sir Kenneth, 1891– 1959 A brigade and divisional Commander in the Dunkirk campaign, Anderson was appointed in 1942 to command the British 1st Army which was to undertake the invasion of North Africa under EISENHOWER's command ...
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... Commander of Army Group Afrika but he never received enough supplies and fought a depressing retreat until he had ... General Henry 'Hap', 1886– 1950 Arnold was the US general who commanded the USAAF in all theaters throughout the war. In ...
... Commander of Army Group Afrika but he never received enough supplies and fought a depressing retreat until he had ... General Henry 'Hap', 1886– 1950 Arnold was the US general who commanded the USAAF in all theaters throughout the war. In ...
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... Commander in Chief in northern Norway and of Southern Command in 1940 but was then appointed Commander in Chief, India in 1941. In June 1941 he was then chosen by Churchill to be Commander in Chief, Middle East, replacing WAVELL. He ...
... Commander in Chief in northern Norway and of Southern Command in 1940 but was then appointed Commander in Chief, India in 1941. In June 1941 he was then chosen by Churchill to be Commander in Chief, Middle East, replacing WAVELL. He ...
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... command of Fighter Squadron 242, which was manned by Canadians. His ... appointed Chief of Staff on Italy's entry into World War II but resigned on ... Commander of First Baltic Front, which became known as the Samland Group in ...
... command of Fighter Squadron 242, which was manned by Canadians. His ... appointed Chief of Staff on Italy's entry into World War II but resigned on ... Commander of First Baltic Front, which became known as the Samland Group in ...
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