Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. Len Deighton

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       17 Stalin’s trusted General Georgi Zhukov began his career in the Tsar’s dragoons and defeated first the Japanese and then the Germans

       18, 19 General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the ‘Tiger of Malaya’, who was forbidden to return to Japan, and Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, once a student of Harvard University, who master-minded the attack on Pearl Harbor

       20 General Hideki Tojo, first Japan’s war minister and then prime minister

      FIGURES

1 HMS Dreadnought

2 German U-boat submarine, type V11C

3 HMS Ajax

4 HMS Exeter

5 German Enigma coding machine

6 British shipping losses in the first year of the war

7 Focke-wulf Fw 200C Condor

8 Short Sunderland flying boat

9 Consolidated Catalina flying boat

10 The German battleship Bismarck

11 The US long-range Liberator, used for convoy escort

12 Comparative ship sizes

13 British Lee-Enfield rifle Mk 111

14 Mercedes and Auto-Union racing cars

15 British Bren light machine-gun

       16 British, French and German tanks in use at the start of the war

       17 Junkers Ju 52/3m transport aircraft

       18 German DFS 230 4.1 glider

       19 Heinkel He 111 bomber

       20 German Mauser Gewehr 98

       21 German MG 34 machine-gun

      22 Fairey Swordfish from HMS Illustrious

       23 German 8.8mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank gun

       24 Heinkel He 280 – the world’s first jet fighter, for which neither Milch nor Udet saw any need

       25 British Avro Lancaster bomber

       26 Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber

       27 Supermarine Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 109

       28 Hawker Hurricane fighter

       29 Messerschmitt Bf 110 long-range fighter

       30 Dornier Do 17 bomber

       31 Junkers Ju 88 bomber

       32 The rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet – the fastest aircraft used in the war

       33 Germany’s jet-propelled Me 262 – the only jet aircraft to have a significant role in the war

       34 Arado 234 ‘Blitz’ bomber (jet)

       35 Heinkel 162 ‘Volksjäger’ (jet)

       36 Russian Ilyushin 2 Shturmovik

       37 Russian T-34 tank

       38 Russian machine-pistol PPSh 41

       39 Two of the best aircraft of the war the Mitsubishi ‘Claude’ and ‘Zero’ fighters

       40 The Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga

       41 Japanese infantry cyclist

      MAPS

       1 The pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck

       2 North Atlantic convoy escort zones

       3 The Maginot Line

       4 The invasion of Norway 1940

       5 The Westward German armoured offensive

       6 German Blitzkrieg and the evacuation of Dunkirk

       7 Italy enters the war, June 1940

      

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