Table of Contents

Introduction and Chronology * Background to war * Warning sides * Outbreak * The fighting * Portrait of a soldier * World around war * Portrait of a civilian * How the war ended * Conclusion and consequences

About the Author

Dr Anderson is head of the Department of War Studies at Sandhurst. His main interests are military and diplomatic history, from the mid eighteenth century to the present. His books include ‘Modern Military Elites’ (1993), ‘D Day’ (1994), ‘The Battle for Manila’ (with John Pimlott and Richard Connaughton, 1995), ‘The World at War’ (1999) and the ‘Fall of the Reich’ (2000). His battlefield tours conducted for both the British and American armies include Salamanca, Waterloo, the Somme, El Alamein, Normandy and the Falklands.