| Description |
15 sound discs (approximately 900 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm) |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Thomas Childers. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Teaching Co.: 811A--813A. |
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In three containers (26 cm.). Each part consists of five sound discs and a course guide. |
| Summary |
A set of thirty lectures (in three parts) examing the greatest conflict in human history, the Socond World War. |
| Contents |
pt. 1: The origins of the Second World War ; Hitler's challenge to the international system, 1933-1936 ; The failure of the international system ; The coming of war ; Blitzkrieg ; The German offensive in the West ; "Their finest hour", Britain alone ; The battle of Britain ; Hitler moves east ; The Germans before Moscow -- pt. 2: The war in Asia ; The Japanese gamble ; The height of Japanese power ; Turning the tide in the Pacific, Midway and Guadalcanal ; The war in North Africa ; War in the Mediterranean, the invasion of Sicily and Italy ; Stalingrad, the turning point on the eastern front ; Eisenhower and Operation Overlord ; D-day to Paris ; Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge -- pt. 3: Advance across the Pacific ; Turning point in the Southwest Pacific, Leyte Gulf and the Philippines ; The final drive for Japan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the fire-bombing of Tokyo ; War in the air ; Hitler's new order in Europe ; "This man's army" ; Daily life, culture, and society in wartime ; The race for Berlin ; Truman, the bomb, and the end of the war in the Pacific ; The costs of war. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States -- History.
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| Local Subject |
BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
World War Two : a military and social history |
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World War 2 |
| ISBN |
1565853881 |
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9781565853881 |
| Music No. |
810 Teaching Company |
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811--813 Teaching Company |
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