Название: Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
Автор: John Kelly
Издательство: Hachette Books
ISBN: 030690277X
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 29,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory—and created a new and dangerous post-war world.
In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain.

Название: Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941
Автор: Franco David Macri
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700621083
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 512
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent-a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations.