The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War »

In The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War, Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war’s political, military, economic and social history through 247 maps. Each map has been specially drawn for this atlas, many of them covering topics that have not previously been mapped. The atlas covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the defeat of Japan in August 1945, including the Blitz, the Fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the naval Battles of the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, Dieppe, Stalingrad, Midway, the Normandy Landings, the bombing of Warsaw, London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Burma Railway, concentration camps and slave labour camps, and prisoner-of-war camps in Europe, the Americas and the Far East.

Focusing on the human - and inhuman - aspects of the war, The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War includes examination of:

• Military, naval and air campaigns on all the war fronts
• The war on land, at sea and in the air
• The economic and social aspects of the war
• The global nature of the war, in armed combat and in suffering
• The impact of the war on civilians, both under occupation, and as deportees and refugees
• The aftermath of the war: the post-war political and national boundaries; war graves, and the human cost of the war on every continent.

Introduction vi

Acknowledgements xii

List of Maps xiii

Section 1 From the German Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France 1

Section 2 Britain Alone and its Allies 17

Section 3 The Soviet Union Becomes an Allied Power 41

Section 4 Japan and the United States Enter the War 53

Section 5 The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942 and Beyond 70

Section 6 The Unarmed and the Civilians 88

Section 7 Total War 111

Section 8 Year of Decision: 1944 135

Section 9 The Defeat of Germany 171

Section 10 The Defeat of Japan 185

Section 11 Global War 203

Aftermath 235

Epilogue xix

Bibliography of Works Consulted xxi

Index xxxi