TY - BOOK AU - BEEVOR Antony TI - The Second World War SN - 9780297844976 (hbk.) : PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1937-1945 KW - HISTORY (EUROPE) KW - WORLD WAR II (EUROPE) N1 - Maps on endpapers; Includes maps on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects ER -