Books written by Evan Mawdsley

  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 1, Fighting the War
    The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 1, Fighting the War

    ... The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999), pp. 133–59; Michael D. Doubler, Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945 ...

  • The War for the Seas
    The War for the Seas

    Covering all the major actions in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as those in the narrow seas, this book interweaves for the first time the endeavors of the maritime forces of the British Empire, the United States, Germany, and ...

  • World War II: A New History
    World War II: A New History

    The World in 1937 -- Japan and China, 1937-1940 -- Hitler's Border Wars, 1938-1939 -- Germany Re-fights World War I, 1939 fights World War I,1939-1940 -- Wars of Ideology, 1941-1942 -- The Red Army versus the Wehrmacht, 1942-1944 -- Japan's ...

  • The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-53, Second Edition
    The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-53, Second Edition

    The definitive English - language work on Stalin's economic policies in the pivotal late 1920s and early 1930s is the ... [ 46 ] Stalin , Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy ( Cambridge , 1991 ) , and [ 47 ] Stalinism in a ...

  • December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War
    December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War

    This book, a truly international history, examines the momentous happenings of December 1941 from a variety of perspectives.

  • Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945
    Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945

    A comprehensive analysis of the Nazi-Soviet conflict that gives equal attention to both sides

  • The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991
    The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991

    Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the world's largest country throughout the entire period of Soviet ...

  • World War II: A New History
    World War II: A New History

    Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall (3 vols., London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964–73), and Phillips P. O'Brien, ... view of American war aims, see Patrick J. Hearden, Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II ...

  • The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-1953
    The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-1953

    This book looks at the entire Stalin era, and includes chapters on ideology, politics, economic development, social change, nationalities, culture and external relations. The final chapter deals with the Great Terror.

  • The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II
    The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II

    Hendrie, Andrew W.A. The Cinderella Service: Coastal Command 1939–1945 (Barnsley, 2006). Herman, Arthur. Freedom's Forge: How American ... Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam (2 vols, London, 1969). Holborn, Andrew.

  • Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945
    Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945

    This second edition takes account of what has been written over the last decade; the Nazi-Soviet war, in all its aspects, has continued to be the subject of extensive and innovative research and heated controversy.

  • The Russian Civil War
    The Russian Civil War

    ... 1917–1920 gg. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov (1957). Krasnodar. Bor'ba za vlast' Sovetov na Donu 1917–1920 gg.: Sbornik dokumentov (1957). Rostov. Borys, Jurij (1980). The Sovietization of Ukraine 1917– 1923: The Communist Doctrine and ...

  • Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
    Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

    In this compelling account, Evan Mawdsley charts the 3,500-mile dash of the "Big Blue Fleet" across the Central Pacific in the first six months of 1944, overwhelming enemy opposition and transforming the nature of naval warfare.

  • The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-1953
    The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-1953

    An account covering the entire period of the Stalin era, this text includes chapters on ideology, politics, economic development, social change, nationalities, culture and external relations. The final chapter deals...