TY  - GEN
T1  - The Second World War illustrated : the first year
A1  - Holroyd, Jack
LA  - English
PP  - Barnsley, South Yorkshire
PB  - Pen & Sword Military
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1118692015
AB  - The first volume covers contributory factors leading up to the outbreak of hostilities. Hitler's amazing success in correcting the real and perceived insults to the German nation resulting from the Great War and the Treaty of Versailles is acknowledged. There followed a military operation ' Blitzkrieg ' which rocked the world as two super powers, France and Great Britain, were soundly thrashed on the battlefield of Europe by Nazi Germany. With the skin of their teeth the British Expeditionary Force fled across the Channel from Dunkirk, leaving most of their equipment behind. The invasion of Kent in the south of England by a triumphant enemy equipped with a cruel and oppressive regime replete with Gestapo, concentration camps and policies of racial and political persecution presented a spine-tingling threat to the British people. With Winston Churchill at the helm disparaging peace treaties with the Nazi regime, the fight back began. A few thousand fighter pilots of the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe by a very narrow margin and Hitler looked to the east for his further bullying of national groups. The first year of the war ended, in September 1940, with Mussolini threatening Egypt and the Suez Canal.
OP  - 279
NO  - Includes index.
NO  - "Archive and colour photographs of WW2"--Cover
CN  - D743.2 .H65 2019eb
SN  - 9781526744418
SN  - 1526744414
SN  - 9781526744401
SN  - 1526744406
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Pictorial works.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Causes.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Ouvrages illustrés.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Causes.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : Pictorial.
KW  - War : Causes
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - Pictorial works
ER  -