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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 5146164, member: 57463"]I highly recommend <b><i>The Second World Wars </i>by Victor Davis Hanson. </b></p><p>The premise is compelling. During the 1930s and into the 1940s, several different wars were fought by a dozen different belligerents. It was not until the summer of 1941 that the three Allied superpowers aligned against the three fascist aggressors. Note, of course, that among the Allies was the USSR, which had joined with Germany in attacking Poland, as well as carrying out a different war against Finland.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>See above. You might use a map showing theaters of conflict and belligerents. Mere "allied versus axis" would be limiting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, Russia was allied with Germany at first. Also after Russia changed sides, Finland was allied with Germany as were Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey with Yugoslavia split between anti-fascist Serbia and pro-fascist Croatia. That said, though, realize that at one point, Tito's partisans were willing to support Germany's defense against an Allied invasion at Dalmatia in order to keep Yugoslavia out of the Allied sphere and available for Russia later. Read about the Ustaše partisans then tell me who was fascist and who was something-else.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is in Hanson (see above), but my mother told me that USSR ships loaded up with USA war materials in Pacific ports and took them to Vladivostok to be transported to the front against Germany and Japan did not attack Russian-flagged ships because they had concluded a peace treaty in 1939. Russia was not at war with Japan. Axis? Allied?</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW <b><i>The Soong Dynasty</i> by Sterling Seagrave</b> is just one source for the fact that Chiang kai Shek's air force was originally trained by Mussolini's air force. So a timeline map of WWII would put China in the Axis and make the Sino-Japanese conflict a peculiar event.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, France! Huh... you know that they sank their own fleet rather than let it fall into Allied hands. After D-Day French fascists were rounding up Jews for the Gestapo. France: Allied or Axis?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 5146164, member: 57463"]I highly recommend [B][I]The Second World Wars [/I]by Victor Davis Hanson. [/B] The premise is compelling. During the 1930s and into the 1940s, several different wars were fought by a dozen different belligerents. It was not until the summer of 1941 that the three Allied superpowers aligned against the three fascist aggressors. Note, of course, that among the Allies was the USSR, which had joined with Germany in attacking Poland, as well as carrying out a different war against Finland. See above. You might use a map showing theaters of conflict and belligerents. Mere "allied versus axis" would be limiting. Well, Russia was allied with Germany at first. Also after Russia changed sides, Finland was allied with Germany as were Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey with Yugoslavia split between anti-fascist Serbia and pro-fascist Croatia. That said, though, realize that at one point, Tito's partisans were willing to support Germany's defense against an Allied invasion at Dalmatia in order to keep Yugoslavia out of the Allied sphere and available for Russia later. Read about the Ustaše partisans then tell me who was fascist and who was something-else. This is in Hanson (see above), but my mother told me that USSR ships loaded up with USA war materials in Pacific ports and took them to Vladivostok to be transported to the front against Germany and Japan did not attack Russian-flagged ships because they had concluded a peace treaty in 1939. Russia was not at war with Japan. Axis? Allied? BTW [B][I]The Soong Dynasty[/I] by Sterling Seagrave[/B] is just one source for the fact that Chiang kai Shek's air force was originally trained by Mussolini's air force. So a timeline map of WWII would put China in the Axis and make the Sino-Japanese conflict a peculiar event. Oh, France! Huh... you know that they sank their own fleet rather than let it fall into Allied hands. After D-Day French fascists were rounding up Jews for the Gestapo. France: Allied or Axis?[/QUOTE]
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