THE WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, & ON THE EASTERN FRONT

Updated April 14, 2007

WAR IN EUROPE
Maps and Timelines
TIMELINE: World War Two in Europe 
  TIMELINE: War in Poland, 1939 
TIMELINE: Spring Crisis 1941
  TIMELINE: Europe First 1941 
TIMELINE: Churchill or Stalin? - Europe 1942 
  WWII Multimedia Timeline: 1939-1941
 
MAPS: European Theater 
  MAPS: WWII Blitzkrieg 1939-1940 
  MAPS: WWII Eastern Front 1941 - 1941-1942 - 1942-1943 - 1943-1945 
  MAPS: WWII Normandy Invasion Jun-Jul 1944 
  MAPS: WWII Western Front 1944 - 1944-45 
Clickable MAP: Personal War Stories by Country
     Interactive Map of World War II: The European Theater 
  Another Map of European Theater 
  MAPS: 1944
More maps and timelines available below and on my WWII Maps, Stats, Timelines page.

Prelude to War
Steps to War: VERSAILLES TREATY to POLISH BLITZKRIEG 1919-1939
Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy: 1933-39 (extracts)
Building up German Hegemony in Central Europe, 1933-1938
The Rhineland Crisis, 1936: French Reaction - British Reaction
The German-Austrian Anschluss, 1938: The British Reaction
The Czech Crisis, 1938: The British View
Prelude to War - Germany - France - Great Britain
More info available on my Causes of World War II page.

Allied Strategy
Germany First: The Basic Concept of Allied Strategy in World War II
Lend-Lease program
TIMELINE: Europe First 1941
Germany had to be defeated first
Churchill's Plan - Europe 1942

GENERAL SITES
MILITARY & NAVAL CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES of WORLD WAR 2 
  CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES OF WORLD WAR 2 - Western Europe, 1939-1940 - Part 2, 1940-1944 - Part 3, Normandy to Berlin, 1944-1945 
WWII Campaign Brochures - European-African-Middle Eastern Theater
  Memories Project: Stories of life during the War. 
  U.S. Army in World War II Series 
  A People at War: The War in Europe 
  The War in North Africa and Europe
    Oral History Interviews: Conflict Index: World War II: European Theater
  PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: European Theater 
  PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Axis accounts 
  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page - Wavs, Sounds & Pictures 
  EarthStation1.com - The WWII Sounds & Pictures Page - Germany in WWII 
General/Comprehensive links on WWII can be found on my WWII LINKS page.


The War Begins - Invasion of Poland
TIMELINE: War in Poland, 1939
The Polish September Campaign 1939 - Polish Army
Polish Campaign 1939 - Polish Army
The Campaign in Poland, September 1 - October 1, 1939
Polish Fighter Units - September 1939 - Polish Aviation History Page
Achtung Panzer ! - Invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss)
The Nazi Occupation of Poland
Blitzkrieg!
For more info, please visit my Holocaust page.

Battle of The Atlantic
Lend-Lease program 
  Battle of the Atlantic 
  Battle of the Atlantic - July Threshold 1941 
  U.S. Merchant Shipping and the British Import Crisis 
  Battle of the Atlantic Bookstore 
  Canonesa, Convoy HX72 & U-100 (U-boats attack allied merchant ships) 
  ATLANTIC & EUROPE at the START - September 1939 
  BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC ITS DEVELOPMENT, 1939-1942 - Part 2, 1943-1945 
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC BATTLES, WARSHIPS & WARSHIP LOSSES, 1939-42 - Part 2, 1943-1945
  uboat.net - The U-boat Wars 1939-1945 and 1914-1918 and Allied Warships of WWII


War in Scandanavia
The German Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN 1940 as well as the years 1939-45
DECISION TO LAND UNITED STATES FORCES IN ICELAND, 1941
RUSSIAN CONVOYS 1941-45
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: The Early Raids
PERSONAL ACCOUNT: Raid on Norway

Battle of Britain
BATTLES OF BRITAIN 1939-45
The Battle of Britain - 1940 / Mass Evacuation from Dunkirk
Behind Dunkirk in 1939
The World at War - "This is London"
Battle of Britain 1940
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
FIGHTER COMMAND - BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 - List of Contents
THE BRISTOL & DISTRICT BLITZ WAR MEMORIAL
London During the Blitz
The Battle of Britain
Swansea's Blitz in colour
Luftwaffe operations over the Bristol area, 1940-1944
Kathleen's story: Bombed in the London Blitz
British WWII Evacuee's Discussion Group - British children evacuated from England during the war.
Sir Winston Churchill and Great Britain's Finest Hour - For more on the Prime Minister, check out my World War II Leaders page.
The Speeches of Winston Churchill
Quotes - Winston Churchill
GREAT BRITAIN'S DECEPTION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE GERMAN INVADER DURING WW II
V-campaign
  Children's Bureau - Children's Overseas Reception Board 
- more info available on my WWII Homefront page. 
  BBC - Scotland During World War II 
  The National Archives Learning Curve | Home Front - Main
  The National Archives | Home Front - Bombing in Britain
  The National Archives | Home Front - Help Children Evacuate
  The National Archives | Home Front - Go Shopping in War Time Britain
    HOLNET - London at War 1939-1945
 

WAR IN EUROPE
CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES OF WORLD WAR 2 - Western Europe, 1939-1940 - Part 2, 1940-1944 - Part 3, Normandy to Berlin, 1944-1945
TIMELINE: The War of Attrition - 1944
***World War II, a British focus***
USAF Museum - Combat in Europe - WWII
  Europe at War


France and the Low Countries
Prelude to War: France
Fall of the Low Countries and France
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Operation Market-Garden
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Southern France
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: The Early Raids
The World at War: Charles de Gaulle - For more on de Gaulle, check out my World War II Leaders page.
TIMELINE: French Empire 1940-45
"La Marseillaise", the French National Anthem. - Real Audio
France in WWII
Second World War in northern France
The Battle of France - 1944
SOUTH OF FRANCE LANDINGS Operation "DRAGOON" - AUGUST 1944
Battle of France Ends - 1944
Occupation of French Territories in the Pacific
The Maginot Line
FRENCH RESISTANCE
France Resists Hitler
Violette's story: Paris is occupied
Helene's story: We are occupied by the German army
Centrale Lyon: Historical Centre of French Resistance and Internment
Liberating the City of Light
PARIS: Chronology of the Liberation
Info on the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) and the Battle of the Bulge found below.

Vichy Government in France - German Collaborators
Vichy Government Formed
Occupied France 
  Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy
 
The Vichy Government in France
France and the Final Solution
Big Blue Books: The Pious Traitors Of Belgium And France
Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France
The Holocaust Bystanders in France
Politics, Society and Christianity in Vichy France
French Catholic Church Apologizes for Silence on Holocaust

Italy
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN 1943-1945 including Sicily
ITALIAN NAVY AT WAR
ITALIAN FRONT - WW2 Italian Military History
Battle of Monte Cassino
SICILY 1943
NAPLES FOGGIA 1943-1944
MAP: Allied Strategy in Italy, January 1944
MAP: Operation Diadem(Italy), May 11-18, 1944
ANZIO 1944
MAP: The Breakthrough to Rome, May 31 - June 4, 1944
North Apennines, September 10, 1944 - April 4, 1945
MAP: Rome to the Arno River, June 5 - August 5, 1944
ROME ARNO 1944
PO VALLEY 1945
Battle of San Pietro
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Italy
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Sicily

Battle of Normandy: D-Day and on to Berlin!
NORMANDY LANDINGS, North West FRANCE Operation "OVERLORD" - June 1944
NORMANDY, June 1944
CROSS-CHANNEL ATTACK
The Normandy Invasion: The Story in Pictures
In Desparate Battle: Normandy 1944
In Desperate Battle - Normandy
NORMANDY: 1944
Overlord - Normandy Invasion
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Voices of D-Day
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Normandy
D Day: Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond
The American Experience:Guts and Glory
The Valour and The Horror - Normandy
D-Day & Deception
Pegasus Bridge over the Orne River

Battle of the Bulge
The War of Attrition - 1944
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Dispatches from the Bulge
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge: The Ardennes Offensive
Angels of Mercy: Nurses' Tales
Anthony Clement McAuliffe, General, United States Army -"NUTS!"

Defeating the Nazis
Defeat of Germany - 1945
The Bombing of Dresden
Holocaust at Dresden
Battle of the Ruhr - Introduction
Rhineland, Sep. 1944 - May 1945
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: The Last Battles
For more on the Russian role in defeating the Nazis, check out the section on the Eastern Front below.
Surrender Documents can be found on my WWII Primary Documents page.

For more, check out my WWII in the Air & at Sea and my Main WWII page.

POWs - PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS
Check out my WWII Generals & Military page.


NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS
WWII Campaign Brochures - European-African-Middle Eastern Theater
EAST AFRICA, RED SEA & NEAR EAST 1940-41
The Decision To Invade North Africa (TORCH)
Mediterranean Operations
The North Africa Campaign
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: North Africa
USAF Museum - WWII Combat Europe - North Africa
Alternate Campaigns: Africa, the Med, and the Middle East
World War II Study - Case Study North Africa
Operation Torch - Invasion of North Africa
North African Landings - 1942
The War in the Western Desert, El Alamein
Victory in Tunisia - 1943
The North African Campaign Of World War II
The War in North Africa and Europe
World War II's Biggest Troop Movement - on the way to Africa

EASTERN FRONT
RUSSIA - GREECE - BALKANS - MEDITERRANEAN
WWII Campaign Brochures - European-African-Middle Eastern Theater
MAPS: WWII Eastern Front 1941 - 1941-1942 - 1942-1943 - 1943-1945
ROYAL NAVY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
BALKANS, GREECE & CRETE 1939-45 including British Aegean Campaign
BRITISH AEGEAN CAMPAIGN 1943
Preveli Project - a Battle of Crete veteran's story
CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES OF WORLD WAR 2 EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIAN FRONT 1939-4
The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia
WWII - The Eastern Front
World War II: The Soviet Experience
Soviet Union Factbook - Great Patriotic War (World War II)
Soviet Union Factbook - Red Air Force (World War II) - Red Army (World War II) - Red Navy (World War II)
The Russian Campaign 1941-1945 A photo diary
The Nazi Occupation of Poland - for much more, check out the section above on "The War Begins - The Invasion of Poland."
The German Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov and mirror site
MAP: Plan Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa
Operation: Barbarossa
Army Group South, Army Group Center, Army Group North
General Winter
World War II in Ukraine - Main
World War II in Ukraine: Chronology of the War in Ukraine
World War II in Ukraine: June 22, 1941
Introduction: The German Campaigns in the Balkans
German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)
Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Tide Turns
Assault at Seelow Heights
Battle for Berlin
Soviet Bombing Raids
Act of German Surrender
World War II: Alliance with the Soviet Union
Relevant Soviet aircraft
Soviet Women Pilots in the Great Patriotic War
"Mission to Moscow" - Warner Bros. propaganda film
Why We Fight - Battle of Russia
For more info, check out my Hitler and the Holocaust page. For more sites on Russia, check out my Russia page.

GERMANY MILITARY
Achtung Panzer! Main Page !
Achtung Panzer! - Military Links !
SS Officer Computer Research
U-boat Net - The U-boat War 1939-1945
Operational Directives from the Fuehrer Headquarters
Germany's Early Campaigns
German Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
Map Germany
German war industry
The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
German Naval History
Arsenal of Dictatorship: Online Encyclopedia of German WWII Weapons
Feldgrau.com - The German Armed Forces 1919-1945
The World at War - German Codenames
Panzer War Resources - World War II
Collection of German W.W.II. Radios
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Axis accounts
For more info, drop by my Hitler and the Holocaust page! More on planes and subs on my WWII Air & Sea page.

VARIOUS TOPICS
The WW2 Jeep
World War II's Biggest Troop Movement
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report(European War)
Tanks of World War II
American Forces in Action
141st Infantry Regiment - invasions of Italy, France, and Germany.
Combat Route of the 79th Infantry Division In WW II
79th Infantry Division In WW II
314th Infantry Association World War II, Inc. Reunion Home Page
79th Infantry Division
OSRD - Office of Scientific Research and Defense

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