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    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>Second World War</title>
    <subTitle>a military history</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Corrigan, Gordon (John Gordon Harvey)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1942-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st U.S. ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxviii, 620 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Reassesses World War II as a collection of separate, uncoordinated campaigns fought in Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean, evaluating the disparate agendas of warring nations to offer a revisionist interpretation of how the war was fought and won.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Prelude : February 1942 -- On your marks- -- Get set- -- Go! -- Interlude : Britain at war : May 1940-June 1941 -- The Russian war : June-October 1941 -- The Asian war : September-December 1941 -- The Mediterranean war : June 1941-August 1942 -- The Russian war : October 1941-November 1942 -- The Asian war : December 1941-May 1942 -- The Mediterranean war : August 1942-May 1943 -- The Asian war : December 1941-November 1942 -- The Russian war : November 1942-June 1944 -- The Asian war : June 1942-August 1944 -- The European war : May 1943-August 1944 -- The sea and air war -- The Axis retreat : August-November 1944 -- The home war -- End game : December 1944-September 1945 -- Checkmate : January 1945-December 1946 -- Epilogue.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Gordon Corrigan.</note>
  <note>"First published in Great Britain by Atlantic Books Ltd."--T.p. verso</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-601) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Causes</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Guerra mundial II, 1939-1945</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">D 743 C825s 2011</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">940.54/2 2 23</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780312577094 (hc. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0312577095 (hc : alk. paper)</identifier>
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