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When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers’ History of World War II 9780755698455, 9781848856509
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Preface
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
World War II (1939–1945) was the most globally important historical event of the twentieth century. From Italian troops invading the Stone Age people of Abyssinia, to Adolf Hitler’s mechanised Blitzkriegs and America’s atomic bombing of Japan, it also charts the major developments of twentieth-century warfare. This was the first truly ‘world war’, with combat touching most continents. The principal theatres of war were Europe, Asia and the Mediterranean (including the North African coast, Greece and the Balkans) and the war on the Eastern Front in Russia – the campaign that ensured Hitler’s grand designs were ruined. Germany’s war with Russia was a massive conflict, where the fighting was on a larger, more våldsam scale,
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