The Handy Military History Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

Twin Disasters

       Japanese High Tide

       Miracle at Midway

       The Allied Invasions

       D-Day

       Breakout

       The Russian Onslaught

       Battle of the Bulge

       War in the Pacific

       Hitler’s Fall

       Surrender of Japan

       THE COLD WAR: 1945 TO 1980

       China, Korea, and Vietnam

       India, Israel, and Egypt

       Summit Meetings

       The Cuban Missile Crisis

       China and Vietnam

       The Six-Day War

       Vietnam

       The Explosions of 1968

       Vietnam Again

       Yom Kippur War

       Nixon in China

       Oil and the Arabs

       The End of the Vietnam War

       Détente and the Dictators

       The Persian Gulf

       RESOURCE WARS AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS: 1980 TO 2014

       The Hostage Crisis

       Lebanon War

       Reagan and Gorbachev

       Tiananmen Square

       Fall of the Soviet Bloc

       End of the Cold War

       First Gulf War

       9/11

       The Future of War

       FURTHER READING

       TIMELINE

       INDEX

Photo Credits

      Ad Meskens: p. 242.

      Bollweevil: p. 46.

      Adam Cuerdon: p. 276.

      Daderot: p. 288.

      Das Bundesarchiv: pp. 369, 379, 389, 391, 423.

      David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada: p. 72.

      Fanghong: p. 59.

      Gautier Poupeau from Paris, France: p. 35.

      Georges Jansoone (JoJan): p. 37.

      Hans Jørn Storgaard Andersen: p. 477.

      Ilya Schurov: p. 506.

      Library of Congress: pp. 309, 315, 321, 335, 340, 371, 373, 378, 417, 433, 437.

      Louis le Grand: p. 42.

      Margaret Thatcher Foundation: p. 476.

      Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net): p. 16.

      Moonik: p. 6.

      National Archives USA: p. 405.

      Nick-D: p. 410.

      Pavel Kazachkov: p. 118 (top).

      Pete Souza: p. 503.

      Project Gutenberg: p. 248.

      RIA Novosti archive: pp. 380,