English Social Studies 英语社会研习

The major participants of World War II are familiar to most young historians, but less well known are the many causes of this bloody conflict. Among them is the treaty that ended World War I, originally meant to keep Germany from becoming a world power again.

Looks at the lives and actions of the political leaders during World War II, including Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and more; as well as flying aces and code breakers.

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War II! It's history, but not as we know it!

In this Very Short Introduction, Gerhard L. Weinberg provides an introduction to the origins, course, and impact of the war on those who fought and the ordinary citizens who lived through it. Starting by looking at the inter-war years and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, he examines how the war progressed by examining a number of key events, including the war in the West in 1940, Barbarossa, The German Invasion of the Soviet Union, the expansion of Japan's war with
China, developments on the home front, and the Allied victory from 1944-45. Exploring the costs and effects of the war, Weinberg concludes by considering the long-lasting mark World War II has left on society today.

D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.

In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.

本书以苏军对德国入侵者展开的绝望抵抗拉开序幕。德军将列宁格勒团团围困，但受制于地形因素，无法发挥大规模坦克的威力，不得不依靠步兵实现突破，因而进展缓慢。危难中的苏军通过一系列的反击措施试图拯救城市，但一再失败，因为这些反击太过分散，没能有效地将炮兵、空军和步兵联合起来。但是苏军逐渐从战斗中汲取经验，充分运用计谋，联合其他战线，终保卫了城市。

本书结合战争进程的宏观叙事与各阶层、各种族民众的个人陈述,揭示德国如何点燃欧洲战火,洞察希特勒的野心与动机,讲述第二次世界大战的来龙去脉。全书融合了叙事、描述和分析,从战役、政策、党内斗争、经济发展,乃至文化宣传、武器研发、科学研究到种族屠杀,展现第三帝国从1939年全面开战到1945年彻底覆灭期间的各个面向。

本书是罗伯特·卡帕亲历二战的摄影手记，作品忠实记录了他在战争中经历和感受到的一切，时间跨度从1942年盟军在北非战场战略反攻至1945年盟军攻克柏林。