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Barcode30293102315277
LocationClark County
Call No940.53 Frit
Title1942 : when World War II engulfed the globe / Peter Fritzsche.
AuthorFritzsche, Peter, 1959- author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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Clark County30293102315277940.53 Frit10/13/2025 AvailableClark County

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International Standard Book Number 9781541603233 ebook
International Standard Book Number 9781541603219 hardcover
International Standard Book Number 1541603214 hardcover
Personal Name Fritzsche, Peter, 1959- author.
Title Statement 1942 : when World War II engulfed the globe / Peter Fritzsche.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2025.
Physical Description viii, 567 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-554) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Prelude. Five days in December ; Drawing a map ; Telling a story -- Movement. "Road to Singapore" ; "On the road to Mandalay" ; Spring internment ; Summer offensive ; America prepares for war ; Stalingrad -- Fighting. On land ; At sea ; In the air -- Push down the road. Transit ; So many hungers ; Warsaw's four sons -- Pull up the road. Richmond, California ; Johannesburg, South Africa -- Occupation. "Quit India" ; The people's war in the Philippines ; The "old town" in Ukraine.
Summary, Etc. "By the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the globe had been killed, most of them civilians. Cities from Warsaw to Tokyo lay in ruins, and fully half of the world's two billion people had been mobilized, enslaved, or displaced. In 1942, historian Peter Fritzsche offers a gripping, ground-level portrait of the decisive year when World War II escalated to global catastrophe. With the United States joining the fight following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, all the world's great powers were at war. The debris of ships sunk by Nazi submarines littered US beaches, Germans marauded in North Africa, and the Japanese swept through the Pacific. Military battles from Singapore to Stalingrad riveted the world. But so, too, did dramas on the war's home fronts: battles against colonial overlords, assaults on internal "enemies," massive labor migrations, endless columns of refugees. With an eye for detail and an eye on the big story, Fritzsche takes us from shipyards on San Francisco Bay to townships in Johannesburg to street corners in Calcutta to reveal the moral and existential drama of a people's war filled with promise and terror"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Nineteen forty-two, A.D.

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