David Jordan is Senior Lecturer at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, where he teaches Intermediate and Advanced Staff courses. He joined the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London in June 2000 from the University of Birmingham. He is Chairman of the Board of Examiners for the MA in Defence Studies. He is the author of several books, including The Timeline of World War II, Wolfpack and the History of the French Foreign Legion. Andrew Wiest is University Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and Founding Director of the university's Dale Center for the Study of War and Society. He is author of many books including The Illustrated History of World War I and The Boys of '67, and co-author of Campaigns of World War II: The Pacific War, The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War and Strategy and Tactics: Infantry Warfare.

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• IntroductionThe Build Up To War 1. Europe 1914–18 2. Europe after the Peace Treaties 1920-21 3. The Depression in Europe 4. Fascist States in Europe 5. European Political Agreements 1934–35 I 6. European Political Agreements 1936–37 II 7. European Political Agreements 1938–39 III 8. Revolution and Invasion in China to 1912-35 9. Expansion of Japan 1920–41 10. Hitler’s Annexations 1936–39September 1939: The Blitzkrieg 11. Invasion of Poland 1-28 September 1939 12. The Winter War November 1939-March 1940 The Phoney War: German and Allied Plans - September 1939 to April 1940 13. Battle of Suomussalmi - 11 December 1939 to 8 January 1940 14. Denmark and Norway - April to June 1940 15. Invasion of the West – May to June 1940 16. Panzer strike through the Ardennes – 12 to 14 May 1940 17. Dunkirk Operation ‘Dynamo’ – 27 May to 4 June 1940 18. Fall of France and Vichy – June 1940 19. The Battle of Britain – July to September 1940 20. The Blitz – September 1940 to May 1941The Air War 21. The Bombing of Europe 1939–41 22. The Thousand Bomber Raid 30/31 May 1943 23. Strategic Bombing 1943 24. Dambusters Raid 16/17 May 1943 25. Schweinfurt Bombing Results The Sea War 26. Battle of the Atlantic I – September 1939 to May 1940 27. Battle of the Atlantic II – June 1940 to March 1941 28. Battle of the Atlantic III – April to December 1941 29. Battle of the Atlantic IV – January 1942 to February 1943 30. Battle of the Atlantic V – May to September 1943North Africa and Italy 31. Campaign in East Africa - June 1940 to November 1941 32. Iraq, Syria and Persia – April to September 1941 33. North Africa: Operation Compass – 9 December 1940 to February 1941 34. North Africa: Operation Sonnenblume – April 1941 35. North Africa: Operation Crusader – November to December 1941 36. Operation Crusader: Battle of Sidi Rezegh - 18 November to 7 December 1941 37. Rommel Returns 38. Gazala and the Fall of Tobruk – May to June 1942 39. The Eve of Battle (El Alamein) – 23 October 1942 40. El Alamein Operation Lightfoot – 24 to 29 October 1942 41. El Alamein, Operation Supercharge – 2 to 4 November 1942 42. The Mediterranean Naval Operations – Late 1942 43. Battle of Matapan – 28 to 29 March 1941 44. Taranto Attack – 11 November 1940 45. Operation Pedestal – 11 to 13 August 1942 46. Operation Torch – 8 November 1942 47. British Advance to Tunisia – November 1942 to February 1943 48. Kasserine Pass – 14 to 22 February 1943 49. Axis Defeat in Tunisia – 20 to 29 March 1943 50. Capture of Tunis – April to May 1943 51. Invasion of Sicily - 10 July to 17 August 1943 52. Southern Italy – 3 September to 15 December 1943 53. Landings at Salerno – 9 to 16 September 1943 54. Southern Italy Operational Plans – 1942 to 43 55. Monte Cassino 56. Landings at Anzio – 17 January to 26 May 1944The Liberation of Rome and Advance North – June to December 1944 57. The End in Italy – April to May 1945The Eastern Front 58. The Balkan Campaign – 6 to 20 April 1941 59. The Conquest of Greece and Crete – 6 to 28 April 1941 60. Operation Barbarossa I – 22 June to early October 1941 61. Operation Typhoon – September to December 1941 62. Battle for Moscow – January to June 1942 63. The Caucasus – June to November 1942 64. The Siege of Sevastopol 65. The Siege of Leningrad – September 1941 to January 1944 66. Dispersion of Soviet Industry 67. The Battle for Stalingrad – September 1942 to February 1943 68. Battle of Kharkov - 29 January to 20 February 1943 69. Eastern Front - March 1943 70. Battle of Kharkov – 2 to 23 March 1943 71. Eastern Front – July 1943 72. Kursk ‘Operation Zitadelle’ – 5 to 13 July 1943 73. Battle of Prokhovovka – 12 July 1943 74. Soviet Advance to Dnieper – 5 July to 1 December 1943 75. Liberating the Ukraine and the Crimea – January to May 1944 76. Leningrad and the Kerelian Front – January to October 1944 77. Karelian Front – September to October 1944 78. Yugoslavia – 1941 and 1942 79. Yugoslavia 1943 80. Operation Bagration – June to July 1944 81. The Warsaw Rising – 1 August to 2 October 1944 82. Soviet Advance into Poland – July 1944 83. Soviet Advance into Romania and Hungary – 8 August to 15 December 1944 84. The Balkans – November to December 1944 85. The Liberation of Greece – October to November 1944 86. The Advance to Koenigsberg – October 1944 to April 1945 87. Battle for Koenigsberg 88. Battle of Budapest and Vienna – December 1944 to May 1945 89. The Advance to the Oder – January to February 1945 90. The Battle for Berlin – 15 April to 6 May 1945 91. The Battle for Berlin - 26 April to 2 May 1945The Western Front 92. Global Strategy – 1941 to 1945 93. COSSAC Plan – August 1943 94. Allied D-Day Landing Plan and Objectives – 6 June 1944 95. Breakout Plan – 22 July to 6 August 96. Falaise Pocket – 6 to 19 August 1944 97. The Liberation of Paris – 14 to 25 August 1944 98. Invasion of Southern France – August 1944 99. Allied Advance to September 1944 100. The Air Lift – 17 September 1944 101. Airborne Drop Zones – September 1944 102. First Airborne Division landing zones – September 1944 103. Battle of the Bulge – 16 to 24 December 1944 104. Battle of the Bulge counterattack – 26 December 1944 to 7 February 1945 105. Advance to the Rhine – 8 February to 21 March 1945 106. Crossing the Rhine – March 1945The War in the Pacific 107. Hawaii Operation, track of Japanese attack force - 26 November to 7 December 108. Pearl Harbor: The Japanese Attack - 7 December 1941 109. Japanese Expansion - December 1941 to July 1942 110. Invasion of Malaya - 8 December1941 to 31 January 1942 111. Capture of Singapore – 8 to 15 February 1942 112. Indian Ocean March – March to April 1942 113. Japanese Invasion of Burma – January to May 1942 114. Japanese Invasion of Philippines – 8 December 1941 to June 1942 115. Bataan and Corregidor 116. Manila and Bataan 117. Japanese Invasion of the Dutch East Indies – January to March 1942 118. Battle of Midway – 4 to 5 June 1942 119. Admiral Yamamoto’s plans to seize Midway – May to June 1942 120. Battle of the Coral Sea – 28 April to 11 May 1942 121. Battle of Midway I – 4 June 1942 04:00 to 10:30 122. Battle of Midway II – 4 June 1942 10:30 to 6 June 00:00 123. US Landings and the Battle of Savo Island – August 1942 124. US Landings 125. Guadalcanal 126. The Solomon Islands – 12 to 13 November 1942 127. Guadalcanal – 13 November 1942 128. Guadalcanal – 14 to 15 November 1942 129. Operation Cartwheel – March 1942 to November 1943 130. New Guinea – August to September 1943 131. The Aleutians – June 1942 to May 1943 132. Chindits in Burma – February to March 1943 133. Pacific situation to October 1944 134. Carrier Raids in the Central Pacific to October 1944 135. Tarawa Atoll – 20 to 23 November 1943 136. Makin Atoll – 20 to 23 November 1943 137. Japanese merchant shipping routes - 1941 to 1945 138. Japanese merchant shipping losses – 7 Dec 1941 to 31 Dec 1942 139. Japanese merchant shipping losses 1943 140. Japanese merchant shipping losses 1944 141. Japanese merchant shipping losses 1945 142. Battle of the Philippine Sea I – 19 June 1944 143. Battle of the Philippine Sea II – 20 to 21 June 1944 144. War in China – July 1937 to December 1944 145. Second Arakan Campaign – December 1943 to April 1944 146. Japanese Invasion of India – March to June 1944 147. Allied Recapture of Burma – December 1944 to February 1945 148. The Saipan Landings – 15 June to 9 July 1944 149. Guam – 21 July to 10 August 1944 150. Tinian – 24 July to 1 August 1944 151. Pacific situation up to August 1945 152. The Battle of the Philippines – 20 to 27 October 1944 153. Liberation of the Philippines – January to August 1945 154. Allied Recapture of Burma – December 1944 to 5 May 1945 155. Landings on Iwo Jima – 19 February to 26 March 1945 156. The Fall of Okinawa – 1 April to 21 June 1945 157. The Japanese Empire – August 1945 158. Bombing of Japan – June 1944 to August 1945 159. Soviet Invasion of Manchuria – September 1945 160. Operations Against Japan – February to August 1945 161. Allied Invasion Plan – August 1945 version 162. Nagasaki – 9 August 1945 The Aftermath 163. Mobilization for War – 1939 to 1945 164. Original Members of the United Nations 1945 165. The Casualties of War – 1939 to 1945