The document provides a summary of British military historian B. H. Liddell Hart's book "The History of the Second World War". The 829-page book chronicles the military operations and major events of World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 over nine parts and 39 chapters. It offers controversial analyses of the causes of key battles and turns in the war. The summary outlines the book's structure, key chapters on major campaigns and battles, and lessons learned from the largest and most devastating war in history.

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WHAT IS WORLD WAR-II
 World War-II also known as the
Second World War, was a global
war that lasted from 1939 to 1945
 This is the largest war in human
history
 Nearly every country was involved
in this war from USA till Japan. So,
that’s why it was a World War.
 By the end, over 70 million were
dead.

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INTRODUCTION
 Controversial judgments, including
provocative assertions about the true
causes behind France's defeat in 1940,
Hitler's failed invasion of Russia, and
Japan's stunning victory at pearl harbor
 Straightforward chronological history of
the military operations of the major
belligerent powers of the Second World
War

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To give you an idea on HISTORY OF
THE SECOND WORLD WAR written by
LIDDELL HART
AIM

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SCOPE
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 THE AUTHOR
 PARTICIPATORS OF THE WAR
 CHAPTERWISE REVIEW
 LESSONS LEARNT

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Author Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Language English
Type of Book Military History/Memoir
Publisher
First published in UK by “Cassell and Co
Ltd”, and this edition was pub by
‘’Papermac’’
Publication year
First Pub was in 1970 and this edition
was pub in the year of 1997
Total Pages 829

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Born 31 Aug 1895
Died 29 Jan 1970
Study Cambridge University
Military
Career
At the outbreak of World War-I, joined
the British Army

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Post
Military
Career
 Military strategist and writer of great acclaim
 Military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and
Adviser on Defense to The London Times
 Military editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Speciality
 Wrote more than thirty books and had an enormous
influence on military thinking about mechanized
warfare.
 The greatest military thinker of the twentieth
century, whose ideas revolutionized the art of war.
 Evolved several military tactical developments
including the Battle Drill system and was an early
advocate of airpower and armored forces

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Chamberlin- British Prime Minister

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1. Part 1 (The Prelude).
a. Chapter 1 – How War was
Precipitated.
b. Chapter 2 – The Opposing Forces
at the Outbreak.
2. Part 2 (The Outbreak).
a. Chapter 3 – The Overrunning of
Poland.
b. Chapter 4 – The Phoney War.
c. Chapter 5 – The Finnish War.

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3. Part 3 (The Surge).
a. Chapter 6 – The Overrunning of Norway.
b. Chapter 7 – The Overrunning of the West.
c. Chapter 8 – The Battle of Britain.
d. Chapter 9 – Counterstroke from Egypt.
e. Chapter 10 – The Conquest of Italian East
Africa.

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4. Part 4 (The Spread).
a. Chapter 11 – The Overrunning of the
Balkans and Crete.
b. Chapter 12 – Hitler Turns against Russia.
c. Chapter 13 – The Invasion of Russia.
d. Chapter 14 – Rommel’s Entry into Africa.
e. Chapter 15 – Crusader.
f. Chapter 16 – Upsurge in the Far East.
g. Chapter 17 – Japan’s Tide of Conquest.

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5. Part 5 (The Turn).
a. Chapter 18 – The Tide Turns in Russia.
b. Chapter 19 – Rommel’s High Tide.
c. Chapter 20 – The Tide Turns in Africa.
d. Chapter 21 – Torch.
e. Chapter 22 – The Race for Tunis.
f. Chapter 23 – The Tide Turns in the acific.
g. Chapter 24 – The Battle of the Atlantic.
6. Part 6 (The Ebb).
a. Chapter 25 – The Clearance of Africa.
b. Chapter 26 – Re-entry into Europe.
c. Chapter 27 – The Invasion of Italy.
d. Chapter 28 – The German Ebb in Russia.
e. Chapter 29 – The Japanese Ebb in the
Pacific.

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7. Part 7 (Full Ebb).
a. Chapter 30 – Capture of Rome and Second
Check in Italy.
b. Chapter 31 – The Liberation of France.
c. Chapter 32 – The Liberation of Russia.
e. Chapter 33 – The Crescendo of Bombing.
f. Chapter 34 – The liberation of South west
Pacific and Burma.
g. Chapter 35 – Hitler’s Ardennes
Counterstroke.

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8. Part 8 (Finale).
a. Chapter 36 – The Sweep from Vistula to
Order.
b. Chapter 37 – The Collapse of Hitler’s Hold
on Italy.
c. Chapter 38 – The Collapse of Germany.
d. Chapter 39 – The Collapse of Japan.
9. Part 9 (Epilogue)

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1. Chapter 1 – How
War was
Precipitated.
2. Chapter 2 – The
Opposing
Forces at the
Outbreak.

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 Facts those took place in the early stage of
world war 2
 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
in January 1933
 He began secretly building up Germany's
army and weapons
 In 1934 he increased the size of the army,
began building warships and created a German air
force
 Compulsory military service was introduced
The outbreak of war was triggered by Germany's
invasion of Poland

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1. Chapter 3 –
The Overrunning
of Poland.
2. Chapter 4 –
The Phony War.
3. Chapter 5 –
The Finnish War.

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 On 1 September 1939, Germany
invaded Poland under a false pretext
 On 3 September, after a British
ultimatum to Germany to cease
military operations was ignored, British
Commonwealth—declared war on
Germany

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 The alliance provided limited direct military
support to Poland
 The Western Allies also began a naval
blockade of Germany
 Germany responded by ordering U-boat
warfare against Allied merchant and warships
 No great battles being fought between
the Franco-British and the German forces
 Ominous activities- behind the curtain

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1. Chapter 6 – The
Overrunning of Norway.
2. Chapter 7 – The
Overrunning of the West.
3. Chapter 8 – The Battle
of Britain.
4. Chapter 9 – Counterstroke
from Egypt.
5. Chapter 10 – The
Conquest of Italian East
Africa.

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 Battle of Britain, counterstroke from Egypt and
the conquest of Italian east Africa
 The German occupation of Norway began on 9
April 1940 after German forces invaded the
neutral Scandinavian country of Norway
 Conventional armed resistance to the German
invasion ended on 10 June 1940

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1. Chapter 11 – The
Overrunning of the Balkans
and Crete.
2. Chapter 12 – Hitler Turns
against Russia.
3. Chapter 13 – The Invasion
of Russia.
4. Chapter 14 – Rommel’s
Entry into Africa.
5. Chapter 15 – Crusader.
6. Chapter 16 – Upsurge in the
Far East.
7. Chapter 17 – Japan’s Tide
of Conquest.

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 The Battle of Crete was the first occasion
where German paratroops were used in
masse,
 The first time the Allies made significant
use of intelligence from the decrypted German
messages from the Enigma machine
 The Allies were impressed by the potential
of paratroopers and started to form airborne-
assault and airfield-defense regiments
 In addition to troops, the Germans
employed some 600,000 motor vehicles and
650,000 horses.

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 The North African Campaign began in June of
1940 and continued for three years, as Axis
and Allied forces pushed each other back and
forth across the desert.
In November, Operation Torch brought in
thousands of British and American forces.
Conflict in this theatre began when the Empire
of Japan invaded French Indochina in
September 1940 and rose to a new level
following the Raid on Pearl Harbor

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1. Chapter 18 – The Tide Turns
in Russia.
2. Chapter 19 – Rommel’s High
Tide.
3. Chapter 20 – The Tide Turns
in Africa.
4. Chapter 21 – Torch.
5. Chapter 22 – The Race for
Tunis.
6. Chapter 23 – The Tide Turns
in the Pacific.
7. Chapter 24 – The Battle of
the Atlantic.

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 In 1942, Russian Army started their
counteroffensive. By that time German troops
were exhausted by the Russian cold weather.
 In 1942, Rommel launched one of his strategic
counterstroke, which went 250 miles deep and
swept the British two-thirds of the way back to
the Egyptian frontier before they rallied.

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1. Chapter 25 – The
Clearance of Africa.
2. Chapter 26 – Re-entry
into Europe.
3. Chapter 27 – The
Invasion of Italy.
4. Chapter 28 – The
German Ebb in Russia.
5. Chapter 29 – The
Japanese Ebb in the
Pacific.

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 In North Africa, General Bernard Montgomery
took over as commander of Allied forces.
While British troops in Egypt were pushing the
Germans west, U.S. forces under Major
General George S. Patton Jr. led the invasion of
French North Africa with the code name
Operation Torch.
 Rommel thus found himself between
American and British forces, and managed to
stall the Allies with a series of defensive
operations, most notably with the Battle of
the Kasserine Pass

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The main invasion force landed around Salerno
on 9 September on the western coast in
Operation Avalanche, while two supporting
operations took place in Calabria (Operation
Baytown) and Taranto (Operation Slapstick).
By the end of 1943, German Army and
Japanese Army suffered heavy casualty in Russia
and Far East. As a result, Hitler started losing
control over his gained territory

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1. Chapter 30 – Capture of
Rome and Second Check in
Italy.
2. Chapter 31 – The
Liberation of France.
3. Chapter 32 – The
Liberation of Russia.
4. Chapter 33 – The
Crescendo of Bombing.
5. Chapter 34 – The liberation
of South west Pacific and
Burma.
6. Chapter 35 – Hitler’s
Ardennes Counterstroke.

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 After more than four years of Nazi
occupation, Paris is liberated by the French
2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th
Infantry Division.
 German resistance was light, and General
Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the
German garrison, defied an order by Adolf
Hitler to blow up Paris’ landmarks and burn
the city to the ground before its liberation.

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 The French 2nd Armored Division was
formed in London in late 1943 with the
express purpose of leading the liberation of
Paris during the Allied invasion of France.
 The failure of the operation drove Hitler
to demand further operations inside the
USSR of increasingly limited scope, all of
which eventually failed, such as Case Blue
and Operation Citadel.

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Chapter 36 – The
Sweep from Vistula to
Order.
1. Chapter 37 – The
Collapse of Hitler’s
Hold on Italy.
2. Chapter 38 – The
Collapse of Germany.
3. Chapter 39 – The
Collapse of Japan.

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 Hitler ordered the citizens of Germany
to destroy anything that the enemy could
put to good use. Embittered by defeats, he
later turned against the Germans
themselves.
 The surrender of Japan was announced
by Imperial Japan on August 15 and formally
signed on September 2, 1945.

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 On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM local
time, the United States detonated an atomic
bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
 Emperor Hirohito intervened and
ordered the Supreme Council for the
Direction of the War to accept the terms the
Allies had set down in the Potsdam
Declaration for ending the war.

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 The German invasion of Russia in June, 1941 has
opened the Eastern Front, and that is something
that would eventually lead to Germany's defeat
 The attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941
got the US into the war, changing the whole face of
the war
 Stalingrad, which destroyed much of the
German army and ensured that Russia would not
fall
 Midway, where much of the Japanese fleet was
destroyed and after this, the Japanese were on the
defensive for the rest of the war

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 The US emerged much richer than any
other nation; and by 1950 its gross domestic
product per person was much higher than any
of the other powers and it dominated the
world economy
 The UK and US pursued a policy of
industrial disarmament in Western Germany in
the years 1945–1948. Because of international
trade interdependencies this led to European
economic stagnation and delayed European
recovery for several years

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 Cause of war
 Spreading of war
 Destruction caused by war
 Different political aspects of the
participators

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