World War II : (Record no. 144047)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781465436023
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International Standard Book Number 1465436022
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System control number (OCoLC)965587735
Canceled/invalid control number (OCoLC)957276640
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050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number REF D 743
Item number .W6655 2015
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Holding library VF$R
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title World War II :
Remainder of title the definitive visual history : from Blitzkrieg to the atom bomb /
Statement of responsibility, etc. senior editor, Alison Sturgeon.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title World War 2 :
Remainder of title the definitive visual history : from Blitzkrieg to the atom bomb
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title World War Two :
Remainder of title the definitive visual history : from Blitzkrieg to the atom bomb
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title WW2 :
Remainder of title the definitive visual history : from Blitzkrieg to the atom bomb
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Title proper/short title DK Smithsonian World War II
246 1# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Display text At head of title:
Title proper/short title Smithsonian
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 70th anniversary edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York, New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Dorling Kindersley Publishing,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2015.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 372 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (some color), color maps ;
Dimensions 31 cm
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Content type term text
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Media type term unmediated
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500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Previous edition: 2009.
508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE
Creation/production credits note Senior editor, Alison Sturgeon ; Smithsonian consultants, Armed Forces History Division, National Museum of American History, Kenneth D. Behring Center (Title-page verso) -- Editorial consultant, Richard Holmes ; Contributors : Charles Messenger, Jonathan Bastable, R.G. Grant, Michael Kerrigan, Robin Cross, Ann Kramer, Sally Regan (Dust jacket).
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Seeds of war, 1914-1938. The war to end war ; The flawed peace ; Fascism and Nazism ; Hitler takes power ; The Nazi state ; Civil wars in China ; Japan on the march ; Rise of the Axis ; Weakness of the democracies ; The Spanish Civil War ; Japan invades China ; Appeasing Hitler -- 2. Europe goes to war, 1939. The path to war ; Declarations of war ; Poland destroyed ; The phoney war ; Early skirmishes ; The Winter War -- 3. Germany triumphant, 1940. The invasion of Denmark and Norway ; Blitzkrieg ; Dunkirk ; The evacuation of Dunkirk ; The fall of France ; The Battle of Britain ; The blitz ; Britain organizes for total war ; America backs Britain ; Italy enters the war -- 4. Widening war, 1941. Life under the swastika ; Governments in exile ; The secret war ; The u-boat war ; Hunting the Bismarck ; The war in the desert ; Conflicts in the middle east ; The Balkans invaded ; Operation Barbarossa ; Nazi massacres ; Moscow saved ; America on the brink ; Japan gambles on war ; Pearl Harbor -- 5. Shifting balance, 1942. The Japanese onslaught ; The new Japanese empire ; Coral Sea and Midway ; Guadalcanal ; Defending Australia ; America organizes for victory ; Secret armies ; The holocaust ; Malta and the Mediterranean ; El Alamein ; Torch landings ; Saving the Soviet Union ; The German drive to the east ; Soviet triumph at Stalingrad -- 6. Allies turn the tide, 1943. Allied leaders plan for victory ; Showdown in the Atlantic ; The invasion of Sicily ; Held by the Gustav Line ; Bombing Germany by day ; The German war industry ; The French resistance ; Prisoners of war in Europe ; The Battle of Kursk ; Island-hopping in the Pacific -- 7. Overwhelming force, 1944. Battles for the Marianas ; Return to the Philippines ; Suffering China ; Turning point in Burma ; The fall of Rome ; Preparing for D-Day ; D-Day landings ; Breakout from Normandy ; Hitler bomb plot ; Liberation of France and Belgium ; Red Army offensive ; Warsaw uprising ; Resistance and civil war in Greece ; Balkan snakepit ; German secret weapons ; Operation Market Garden ; Battle of the Bulge -- 8. Endgame, 1945. Destruction of Germany's cities ; The Allies invade the Reich ; Liberating the Nazi death camps ; Final offensives in Europe ; Deaths of the dictators ; The Battle for Iwo-Jima ; Okinawa ; Japan under siege ; Subjects of the emperor ; Potsdam Conference ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; Japan surrenders -- 9. Aftermath, 1946-1950. Counting the cost ; The fate of the defeated ; The Iron Curtain ; Rebirth of Japan and West Germany ; The end of empires ; Red China ; The Cold War ; The war remembered.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The definitive visual history looks at this epic war from every angle, tracing the course of military, strategic, and political events across the globe, and documenting the experiences of combatants and civilians.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element World War, 1939-1945.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element World War, 1939-1945
Form subdivision Pictorial works.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sturgeon, Alison,
Relator term editor.
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element National Museum of American History (U.S.).
Subordinate unit Behring Center.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element DK Publishing, Inc.
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