A History of World War II: Sweeping Across Europe and Africa

This book covers Germany and Italy sweeping across Western Europe; Germany’s “Yellow Plan” for attacking Western Europe; the German conquest of the Netherlands and Belgium; the German blitzkrieg against France; Italy’s entry into the war; the capture of Paris; Britain’s determined resistance; Churchill forming a government; Britain’s full-scale mobilization for resistance; Germany declaring war on Britain; British bombing raids on Germany; fierce naval battles between Britain and Germany in the Atlantic; the German-Italian invasion and expansion in Africa; German-Italian aggression and expansion in the Balkans; the Anglo-German-Italian struggle for control of the Mediterranean; Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union; Operation Barbarossa; Germany’s lightning attack on the Soviet Union; the Red Army’s strategic defense; several major battles between Germany and the Soviet Union; the Red Army’s winter offensive; the sudden outbreak of war in the Pacific; Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor; the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia; and the alliance between the world’s two major blocs.