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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... troops to India. Appointed Commander in Chief in August 1942 by Churchill he directed the great campaigns in which MONTGOMERY's 8th Army triumphed over ROMMEL at Alamein and thereafter. After the US and British troops joined forces in ...
... troops to India. Appointed Commander in Chief in August 1942 by Churchill he directed the great campaigns in which MONTGOMERY's 8th Army triumphed over ROMMEL at Alamein and thereafter. After the US and British troops joined forces in ...
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... troops to protect the Ploesti oilfields which were to supply Germany with 46,000 tons of fuel per month in 1941. On 23 September 1940 he signed the Axis Pact and by this time had won Hitler's trust. In January 1941 he asked Hitler for ...
... troops to protect the Ploesti oilfields which were to supply Germany with 46,000 tons of fuel per month in 1941. On 23 September 1940 he signed the Axis Pact and by this time had won Hitler's trust. In January 1941 he asked Hitler for ...
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... troops. He spent the rest of the war in Prisoner of War camps. Arnold, General Henry 'Hap', 1886– 1950 Arnold was the US general who commanded the USAAF in all theaters throughout the war. In 1936 he was appointed Assistant Chief of the ...
... troops. He spent the rest of the war in Prisoner of War camps. Arnold, General Henry 'Hap', 1886– 1950 Arnold was the US general who commanded the USAAF in all theaters throughout the war. In 1936 he was appointed Assistant Chief of the ...
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... troops in North Africa. ROMMEL was not under his orders but was to be responsible to him. Rommel succeeded in making Bastico's job impossible by ignoring him and eventually troops were placed directly under Rornmel. In February 1942 ...
... troops in North Africa. ROMMEL was not under his orders but was to be responsible to him. Rommel succeeded in making Bastico's job impossible by ignoring him and eventually troops were placed directly under Rornmel. In February 1942 ...
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... troops fighting in Zeeland. He left for Britain and trained as a pilot in the RAF. In November 1940 Queen WILHELMINA appointed him liaison officer between British and Dutch forces and during the war he was promoted to Lieutenant General ...
... troops fighting in Zeeland. He left for Britain and trained as a pilot in the RAF. In November 1940 Queen WILHELMINA appointed him liaison officer between British and Dutch forces and during the war he was promoted to Lieutenant General ...
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