Outbreak - 1939 : the world goes to war / Terry Charman.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:London : Virgin, 2009وصف:xviii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781905264827
- 1905264828
- 9780753519646
- 075351964X
- D741 .C437 2009
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D741 .C437 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000047950 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Countdown to war -- 2. Friday, 1 September 1939 -- 3. Saturday, 2 September 1939 -- 4. Sunday, 3 September 1939 -- 5. The fall of Poland -- 6. The war in the air -- 7. The war on land -- 8. The war at sea -- 9. The empire at war -- 10. The beer hall bomb -- 11. The Venlo incident -- 12. The war on the home front -- 13. Wartime entertainment -- 14. Lord Haw Haw -- 15. The winter war -- 16. Christmas and the end of the year.
11:15am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers round their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement that has been feared for months: Britain will now be at war with Germany. 70 years on from that historic day, this book revisits the build-up, outbreak and first few months of World War Two.