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The Second World War in Europe

The Second World War
in Europe

Second edition

S. P. MacKenzie

First published in Great Britain in 1999
Second edition published in 2009 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 1999, 2009 Taylor & Francis.

The right of S. P. MacKenzie to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
MacKenzie, S. P.
The Second World War in Europe / S.P. MacKenzie. 2nd ed.
p. cm. (Seminar studies in history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4058-4699-8 (pbk)
1. World War, 19391945Europe. 2. EuropeHistory1918-1945. I. Title.
D743.M237 2009
940.53dc22

2008046445

ISBN 13: 978-1-4058-4699-8 (pbk)

Set in 10/13.5pt Berkeley Book by 35

Introduction to the Series

History is narrative constructed by historians from traces left by the past. Historical enquiry is often driven by contemporary issues and, in consequence, historical narratives are constantly reconsidered, reconstructed and reshaped. The fact that different historians have different perspectives on issues means that there is also often controversy and no universally agreed version of past events. Seminar Studies in History was designed to bridge the gap between current research and debate, and the broad, popular general surveys that often date rapidly.

The volumes in the series are written by historians who are not only familiar with the latest research and current debates concerning their topic, but who have themselves contributed to our understanding of the subject. The books are intended to provide the reader with a clear introduction to a major topic in history. They provide both a narrative of events and a critical analysis of contemporary interpretations. They include the kinds of tools generally omitted from specialist monographs: a chronology of events, a glossary of terms and brief biographies of who's who. They also include bibliographical essays in order to guide students to the literature on various aspects of the subject. Students and teachers alike will find that the selection of documents will stimulate discussion and offer insight into the raw materials used by historians in their attempt to understand the past.

Clive Emsley and Gordon Martel
Series Editors

Contents

Matching the scale of destruction and upheaval generated by the war itself, the published literature on the Second World War is gargantuan. Indeed, with so much material to draw upon, those historians who attempted to write or compile general histories of the war to mark the fiftieth anniversary tended to produce truly massive tomes. There are, to be sure, a few recent overviews of more manageable proportions, but there is little in the way of a truly brief introduction to the subject for the younger generations for whom World War II is terra incognita. Hence this little book.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

Maps

Map 1 (adapted), Map 2, Map 4, Map 5 and Map 6 from The Second World War, Hutchinson (John Keegan 1989) pages. 75, 183, 355, 406 and 503 respectively, all reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

Texts

Doc. 14 from War Factory A Report, Gollancz (Mass Observation 1943) pp. 1212; Doc. 16 from Inside the Third Reich, Avon (Speer, A. 1970) pp. 2789, Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., and from INSIDE THE THIRD REICH by Albert Speer. Copyright 1969 by Verlag Ullstein GmbH. English translation copyright 1970 by Macmillan Publishing Company. All rights reserved and published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group, London; Doc. 19 from U333: The Story of a U-Boat Ace The Bodley Head (Cremer, P. 1984) pp. 724, Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. and copyright 1984 Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin; Doc. 23 from Other Men's Graves, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Neumann, P. 1958) pp. 2245, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group, London.

Plates

1 TopFoto: ullsteinbild. 2 TopFoto. 3 TopFoto: Topham Picturepoint. 4 TopFoto: J.Irwin/ClassicStock. 5. TopFoto. 6 TopFoto: Artmedia/HIP 7 TopFoto: World History Archive. 8 TopFoto. 9 TopFoto: Topham Picturepoint. 10 TopFoto: ullsteinbild.

In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so.

1939
1 September	Germany invades Poland.
3 September	Britain and France declare war on Germany.
7 September	USSR invades eastern Poland.
28 September	Warsaw falls.
30 September	Germany and USSR divide Poland.
3 November	USA allows Britain and France to buy arms on cash and carry basis.
30 November	USSR attacks Finland.
1940
12 March	Finland signs peace treaty with USSR, ceding territory.
9 April	Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
14 April	British forces land in Norway.
2 May	British forces evacuated from Norway.
10 May	Chamberlain replaced by Churchill as British prime minister.
German attack in the West begins.
14 May	Main German drive through Sedan area begins.
Dutch surrender.
28 May	Belgian surrender.

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