The good fight : how World War II was won /
by Stephen E. Ambrose.
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (c)2001.
- 96 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
War origins: Europe -- Map of German conquests -- Map of the Pacific campaign -- War origins: Asia -- Pearl Harbor -- Training for war -- The Doolittle raid -- The battle of Midway -- Japanese-American relocation centers -- The battle of the Atlantic -- Guadalcanal -- Map of the battle of Guadalcanal -- Map of operation torch -- Operation torch -- The Aleutian campaign -- Operation husky -- The campaign in Italy -- Map of operation husky and the Italian campaign -- Map of the China-Burma-India theater -- China-Burma-India theater of operations -- Tarawa -- Arsenal of democracy -- The air war over Europe -- The Manhattan project -- D-Day -- Map of D-Day -- The invasion of Saipan -- The liberation of Paris -- The liberation of the Philippines -- The air war over Japan -- The battle of the Bulge -- Iwo Jima -- The Rhine river crossings -- The holocaust -- The U.S. and Soviet armies meet at Torgau -- V-E Day -- Map of Nazi Germany 1945 -- Map of Japan 1945 -- Okinawa -- The war conferences -- The atomic bomb -- V-J Day -- The war crimes trials -- The Marshall plan -- Glossary -- Bibliography and related web sites -- Index.
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World War, 1939-1945--United States--Juvenile literature.