Heroes of the Battlefield
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Brian Williams
Brian Williams has wide experience in international publishing as writer, editor and consultant. He is a long-term Pitkin heritage author, with titles including several in the History of Britain series, military and politics. He has also authored several historical titles with Brenda Williams, such as Saxons & Vikings, Life in a Roman Villa and Britain in the Blitz.
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Heroes of the Battlefield - Brian Williams
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Ordinary Heroes
Soldiers in Combat
Heroes of the Sea
War in the Air
Bomber Crews
Special Forces
Behind Enemy Lines
Unsung Heroes
What Makes a Hero?
Timeline
Glossary
Find Out More
Index
Copyright
Back Cover
Ordinary Heroes
Great Britain’s prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, broadcast a speech on the radio at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday morning, September 3, 1939. He told listeners that Britain was at war. They did not know then that World War II would last six long years, until 1945. In a world at war, ordinary men and women became heroes.
pictureNews of war over the radio made people uncertain and fearful of what was to come.
TAKING SIDES
In 1939, Britain and France went to war with Germany, after Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, ordered his forces to invade Poland. Britain and France were allies, bound by a treaty to help the Poles.
GLOBAL WAR
In 1940, German armies overran much of Europe. When Italy joined the war in June 1940, fighting spread to the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa. Italy and Germany formed the Axis alliance with Japan in September 1940. The European war became more of a global conflict when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The United States joined the Allies after the attack.
pictureOn this map of the Asia-Pacific war, the arrows show how Japan extended its empire. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Allies pushed back the Japanese in a series of sea and land battles.
THE ROAD TO WAR
Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933. He built a strong army and air force in order to establish a new German empire, or Reich. In 1938, Germany took over Austria and Czechoslovakia. Other countries in Europe let Hitler have his way, in the hope that this would prevent another European war on