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Sto caricando le informazioni... What Britain Has Done 1939-1945di Richard Overy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A reprint from 1945, summarising "What Britain has done" to prevail in WWII. A statistical rather than narrative account but clearly showing that someone (probably an army of them) was keeping tally of what was going on, on the land, in the air and on/under the sea. Apart from the sheer (and near crippling) cost, one gets a real sense of how Britain geared up massively, from a peacetime economy to a war footing, to win the war. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this astonishing portrait of a society at total war, we learn: the total casualties sustained by the UK up to the beginning of May 1945 amounted to close on one million. Of this total 746,109 were suffered by the Armed Forces (228,383 killed, 59,476 missing, 274,148 wounded and 184,102 prisoners of war). Between November 1943 and March 1944, Berlin was the most heavily bombed city in the world, well over 33,000 tons of bombs having been dropped on it by the R.A.F. alone. During the first 4 weeks of the continental campaign in North-West Europe] no fewer than 1,000,000 men, 183,500 vehicles, and 650,000 tons of stores were landed in Normandy. During this period the average daily number of convoys going across the Channel was 16. London was bombed every night except three from the 7th September to the end of November 1940. During the blitz the Post Office was still handling 10,000,000 packets and 500,000 parcels daily. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)940.53History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War IIClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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