Chapter 1. 1918-1939: the Treaty of Versailles to the Invasion of Poland -- Chapter 2. 1940: the German Invasion of Norway, the Low Countries and France -- Chapter 3. 1940: the Battle of Britain and the German Invasion threat (Operation Sealion) -- Chapter 4. The Balkans and North Africa, 1940-3 -- Chapter 5. Barbarossa: The German Invasion of Russia, 1941 -- Chapter 6. The War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-2: Pearl Harbor to Midway -- Chapter 7. Russia and the Eastern Front 1942-4: Stalingrad, Kursk and the relief of Leningrad -- Chapter 8. The War at Sea -- Chapter 9. The War in the Air: strategic bombing -- Chapter 10. Sicily and Italy -- Chapter 11. Planning for the Normandy Landings: Neptune and Overlord -- Chapter 12. D-Day to VE-Day -- Chapter 13. The Eastern Front and the Defeat of Germany 1944-5 -- Chapter 14. Burma and the Pacific after Midway: 1942-5 -- Afterword -- German military terms -- Glossary: list of abbreviations.
Subject Terms:
World War, 1939–1945 -- Maps. | World War, 1939–1945 -- Campaigns -- Maps. | World War, 1939–1945 -- Battlefields -- Maps. | World War (1939–1945) | Battlefields. | Military campaigns.