Mawdsley, Evan, 1945-

December 1941 twelve days that began a world war / [electronic resource] : Evan Mawdsley. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011. - ix, 347, [16] p. of plates : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 December: Japan, Germany, and the coming world war -- 1 December: the fight to the death in Russia -- 1 December: London, Libya, and the dangers of the Far East -- 1 December: Washington, magic, and the Japanese peril -- 2 December: two doomed battleships in Singapore -- 3 December: the president's secret promise -- 4 December: Hitler and Japan's war of conquest -- 5 December: the lull before two storms -- 6 December: General Zhukov throws in his armies -- 7 December: date of infamy: Japan's undeclared wars in Malaya and Hawaii -- 8 December: the beginning of the end of the British empire -- 9 December: FDR begins the American century -- 10 December: Force 'Z' and the Malayan tragedy -- 11 December: Hitler's war on America -- 12 December: world war and the destruction of the Jews -- Aftermath: the new war and a new world.


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World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.


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