A World at Arms A Global History of World War II

Gerhard L. Weinberg9780521558792, 0521558794

Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this is the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and her colonies following the First World War, Gerhard Weinberg sheds new light on every facet of World War II. Actions of the Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the war. More importantly, the global nature of the war is examined, with new insight into how events in one corner of the world helped affect events in other distant parts. A World at Arms is a fascinating account of the Second World War and the world that the war reshaped. Gerhard L. Weinberg was born in Germany and spent the first year of World War II in England. After serving in the U.S. army of occupation in Japan, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Professor Weinberg worked on Columbia University’s War Documentation project and directed the American Historical Association’s program for the microfilming of captured German documents. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the origins and the course of the war, including the prize-winning two-volume study The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany.

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Table of contents :
A World at Arms……Page 1
Contents……Page 9
List of Maps……Page 11
Preface……Page 12
Abbreviations……Page 16
Introduction……Page 19
From One War to Another……Page 24
The War Against Poland……Page 66
The World Turned Upside Down……Page 140
The Expanding Conflict, 1940-1941……Page 205
The Eastern Front and a Changing War……Page 282
Halting the Japanese and the Germans……Page 328
The war at Sea, 1942-1944……Page 382
The war in Europe and North Africa 1942-1943……Page 426
The home front……Page 489
Means of warfare:old and new……Page 554
From the spring of 1943 to summer 1944……Page 605
The assault on Germany from all sides……Page 685
Tensions in both alliances……Page 740
The halt on the European fronts……Page 768
The final assault on Germany……Page 798
The war in the Pacific:from Leyte to the Missouri……Page 860
Bibliographic essay……Page 939
Notes……Page 963
Index……Page 1173