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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... officers and men.' He made another brave but pointless attempt to break out in May 1945. This time the Australian 6th Division repulsed his men and the Japanese lost 9000. When news of the Japanese capitulation reached him, he ...
... officers and men.' He made another brave but pointless attempt to break out in May 1945. This time the Australian 6th Division repulsed his men and the Japanese lost 9000. When news of the Japanese capitulation reached him, he ...
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... officers who were missing but received no assistance. Stalin wanted the Polish Corps to fight for the USSR but would not arm them. Eventually he agreed to allow the Poles, about 60,000 men and 100,000 women and children, to leave via ...
... officers who were missing but received no assistance. Stalin wanted the Polish Corps to fight for the USSR but would not arm them. Eventually he agreed to allow the Poles, about 60,000 men and 100,000 women and children, to leave via ...
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... officers and 14,000 men decided not to return to Poland. Anders was head of the Polish community in England until his death. Anderson, General Sir Kenneth, 1891– 1959 A brigade and divisional Commander in the Dunkirk campaign, Anderson ...
... officers and 14,000 men decided not to return to Poland. Anders was head of the Polish community in England until his death. Anderson, General Sir Kenneth, 1891– 1959 A brigade and divisional Commander in the Dunkirk campaign, Anderson ...
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... officers who came to the force after the Soviet Purges of 1938–39 thanks to the protection of SHAPOSHNIKOV. When ... officer in the Royal Army Service Corps in France but then joined the commandos. In late summer 1941 he was sent to ...
... officers who came to the force after the Soviet Purges of 1938–39 thanks to the protection of SHAPOSHNIKOV. When ... officer in the Royal Army Service Corps in France but then joined the commandos. In late summer 1941 he was sent to ...
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... officer). Thus, although never friends they were able to find much common ground in the direction of the war and worked together without disharmony. A superb party manager, Attlee insured the complete support of the Labour minority for ...
... officer). Thus, although never friends they were able to find much common ground in the direction of the war and worked together without disharmony. A superb party manager, Attlee insured the complete support of the Labour minority for ...
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