Course Lecture Titles:
1. The Origins of the Second World War
2. Hitler’s Challenge to the International System, 1933–1936
3. The Failure of the International System
4. The Coming of War
5. Blitzkrieg
6. The German Offensive in the West
7. “Their Finest Hour”—Britain Alone
8. The Battle of Britain
9. Hitler Moves East
10. The Germans Before Moscow
11. The War in Asia
12. The Japanese Gamble
13. The Height of Japanese Power
14. Turning the Tide in the Pacific—Midway and Guadalcanal
15. The War in North Africa
16. War in the Mediterranean—The Invasions of Sicily and Italy
17. Stalingrad—The Turning Point on the Eastern Front
18. Eisenhower and Operation Overlord
19. D-Day to Paris
20. Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge
21. Advance Across the Pacific
22. Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific—Leyte Gulf and the Philippines
23. The Final Drive for Japan—Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo
24. War in the Air
25. Hitler's New Order in Europe
26. “The Man’s Army”
27. Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime
28. The Race for Berlin
29. Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific
30. The Costs of War

About the Author:

THOMAS CHILDERS is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five previous books on the Third Reich and World War II, most recently, Wings of Morning and In the Shadows of War.

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