The good fight : how World War II was won

Ambrose, Stephen E. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780689843617
ISBN: 0689843615
Physical Description: 96 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
print
Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

War origins: Europe -- Map of German conquests -- Map of the Pacific campaign -- War origins: Asia -- Pearl Harbor -- Training for war -- The Doolittle raid -- The battle of Midway -- Japanese-American relocation centers -- The battle of the Atlantic -- Guadalcanal -- Map of the battle of Guadalcanal -- Map of operation torch -- Operation torch -- The Aleutian campaign -- Operation husky -- The campaign in Italy -- Map of operation husky and the Italian campaign -- Map of the China-Burma-India theater -- China-Burma-India theater of operations -- Tarawa -- Arsenal of democracy -- The air war over Europe -- The Manhattan project -- D-Day -- Map of D-Day -- The invasion of Saipan -- The liberation of Paris -- The liberation of the Philippines -- The air war over Japan -- The battle of the Bulge -- Iwo Jima -- The Rhine river crossings -- The holocaust -- The U.S. and Soviet armies meet at Torgau -- V-E Day -- Map of Nazi Germany 1945 -- Map of Japan 1945 -- Okinawa -- The war conferences -- The atomic bomb -- V-J Day -- The war crimes trials -- The Marshall plan -- Glossary -- Bibliography & related web sites -- Index.