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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... Italian Field Marshal and a veteran of Italy's colonial wars having fought in the disastrous campaign of 1896 in Ethipia and in that of 1911–12 against Turkey in Libya. Badoglio made a considerable reputation for himself during World ...
... Italian Field Marshal and a veteran of Italy's colonial wars having fought in the disastrous campaign of 1896 in Ethipia and in that of 1911–12 against Turkey in Libya. Badoglio made a considerable reputation for himself during World ...
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... Italian politician, Balbo was one of the most flamboyant figures of the Fascist movement. He was a distinguished pioneer aviator, had been Minister of Aviation and in 1936 was appointed Governor of Libya. He opposed Italy's alliance ...
... Italian politician, Balbo was one of the most flamboyant figures of the Fascist movement. He was a distinguished pioneer aviator, had been Minister of Aviation and in 1936 was appointed Governor of Libya. He opposed Italy's alliance ...
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... Italy. Bayerlein, General Fritz, 1899–1970 Bayerlein was a Panzer Commander who fought on all the fronts during the war. In 1940 after the Polish Campaign he served under GUDERIAN in France and then commanded a combat group in the XXXIX ...
... Italy. Bayerlein, General Fritz, 1899–1970 Bayerlein was a Panzer Commander who fought on all the fronts during the war. In 1940 after the Polish Campaign he served under GUDERIAN in France and then commanded a combat group in the XXXIX ...
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... Italian armistice of 1943 and arranged the surrender of the German forces in the west in May 1945. Bell, Bishop George, 1883–1958 A leading British clergyman of progressive views, Bell, as Bishop of Chichester, attracted widespread ...
... Italian armistice of 1943 and arranged the surrender of the German forces in the west in May 1945. Bell, Bishop George, 1883–1958 A leading British clergyman of progressive views, Bell, as Bishop of Chichester, attracted widespread ...
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... Italian Americans from the list of aliens. As Attorney General he appointed an Interdepartmental Committee on Investigations which tried to set up procedures for loyalty investigations. After the war he served as a member of the ...
... Italian Americans from the list of aliens. As Attorney General he appointed an Interdepartmental Committee on Investigations which tried to set up procedures for loyalty investigations. After the war he served as a member of the ...
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