World War II A Military And Social History Great Courses on Tape

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 PacificMidway and Guadalcanal 15. The War in North Africa 16. War in the MediterraneanThe Invasions of Sicily and Italy 17. StalingradThe 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 PacificLeyte Gulf and the Philippines 23. The Final Drive for JapanIwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo 24. War in the Air 25. Hitler's New Order in Europe 26. "This 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