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The History of the Twentieth Century

von Mark Painter

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  1. 372 The Road to the Holocaust

    It started with the concentration camps.

  2. 371 Operation Shoestring

    In the first American offensive action of the war, US marines land on Guadalcanal.

  3. 370 Not One Step Back

    The German 1942 offensive in the USSR began well, so well that Hitler split the offensive into two parts. The German Army was advancing on Stalingrad and threatening to cut Russia off from its oil fields in the Caucasus.

  4. 369 Operation Sledgehammer

    The US military went into the war just itching to invade France and take on the Germans ASAP. It was up to the British to talk them down, though the Allies did attempt a raid on the French coast at the port of Dieppe. Meanwhile, German inte

  5. 368 The Second United Front

    The war against Japan brought the Nationalists and the Communists back into a new alliance, but it didn't last. Mao Zedong polished up his political writings and asserted his authority over the Party.

  6. 367 El Alamein

    Adolf Hitler redeployed Luftwaffe units from the Eastern front to the Mediterranean. With Axis air superiority in the region established, shipments of equipment and supplies to Panzer Army Africa substantially increased. Soon Rommel was on

  7. 366 The Desert Fox

    Rommel was surprised by a British offensive (Operation Crusader) and his forces were driven all the way back to where he had started from a year earlier. But in a few months, he and his army pushed the British back to where they had started

  8. 365 The Second Happy Time

    When the United States entered the war, the German U-boats suddenly had many more targets.

  9. 364 The Man with the Iron Heart

    Reinhard Heydrich was one of the most vicious of the Nazis. So much so that the Czechoslovak and British governments decided that he needed to be eliminated.

  10. 363 Midway

    The Japanese execute their attempted ambush at Midway, and it fails catastrophically.

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