Twelve turning points of the Second World War

Böcker. New Haven : Yale University Press. 2011.

Includes bibliographic references and index.
Hitler's triumph : the collapse of France, May-June 1940 -- 'Finest hour' : the Battle of Britain, July-September 1940 -- Operation Barbarossa : the German attack on the Soviet Union, 1941 -- Pearl Harbor, December 1941 : the war becomes a World War -- The battle of Midway, 4 June 1942 -- The battle of Stalingrad, July 1942-February 1943 -- Convoys and wolf packs : decision in the Atlantic, March-May, 1943 -- 'The proper application of overwhelming force' : the battle of the factories -- The Teheran Conference, 28 November-1 December 1943 : turning point for the Grand Alliance -- D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, June-July 1944 -- 'A fateful conference' : Yalta, 4-11 February 1945 -- The defeat of Japan and the atomic bombs, 1945.