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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... arrested and replaced by Sanatescu. He was tried for his war crimes and executed after the war. Antonov, General Alexei I, 1896–1962 Antonov was made the Soviet Chief of General Staff at the end of the war (February 1945). Antonov was ...
... arrested and replaced by Sanatescu. He was tried for his war crimes and executed after the war. Antonov, General Alexei I, 1896–1962 Antonov was made the Soviet Chief of General Staff at the end of the war (February 1945). Antonov was ...
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... arrested for sedition in 1940. In 1942 he was appointed national leader by the Japanese and began negotiating for Burma's independence and was forced to accept the loss of part of the Shan states. In August 1943 Burma was declared ...
... arrested for sedition in 1940. In 1942 he was appointed national leader by the Japanese and began negotiating for Burma's independence and was forced to accept the loss of part of the Shan states. In August 1943 Burma was declared ...
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... arrested for trying to pass counterfeit money—the Germans had given him forged bank notes. Neither side profited from this coup in espionage. Beaverbrook, Lord Maxwell Aitken, 1879–1964 A Canadian self-made multimillionaire and the ...
... arrested for trying to pass counterfeit money—the Germans had given him forged bank notes. Neither side profited from this coup in espionage. Beaverbrook, Lord Maxwell Aitken, 1879–1964 A Canadian self-made multimillionaire and the ...
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... arrested in the War Office by the opportunist FROMM, and committed suicide under his supervision that evening. Bedell Smith, General Walter, 1895– 1961 A staff officer who had risen from the ranks, he became, at the outbreak of the war ...
... arrested in the War Office by the opportunist FROMM, and committed suicide under his supervision that evening. Bedell Smith, General Walter, 1895– 1961 A staff officer who had risen from the ranks, he became, at the outbreak of the war ...
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... arrested them while they were sleeping. Bleicher worked with Henri Déri-court, the double agent, and through him came to know Major Henri Frager, a Resistance organizer, whom he arrested in 1944. At the end of the war he was arrested by ...
... arrested them while they were sleeping. Bleicher worked with Henri Déri-court, the double agent, and through him came to know Major Henri Frager, a Resistance organizer, whom he arrested in 1944. At the end of the war he was arrested by ...
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