World War II: A chronology
From the evacuation of children from Britain’s major cities in August 1939 to the surrender of half a million Japanese troops in liberated Singapore in September 1945, all aspects of World War II are here.
Every theatre of war – the Western front, the Pacific, north Africa, the Russian front, the Italian front, south-east Asia. All the major players – Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini. All the main military leaders – Wavell, MacArthur, Alexander, Montgomery, Marshall, Rommel, Zhukov. And a cast of many millions – suffering, dying and surviving the most terrible war the world has ever known.
In addition, relevant websites – from Channel 4 and from a host of other authoritative sources – are flagged up throughout the chronology.
