DUSARE JAGTIK MAHAYUDDHA

S.S.DESAI

Sept 2021 · MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE

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THE INSTABILITY CREATED IN EUROPE BY THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-18 SET THE STAGE FOR ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT—WORLD WAR II—WHICH BROKE OUT TWO DECADES LATER AND WOULD PROVE EVEN MORE DEVASTATING. RISING TO POWER IN AN ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY UNSTABLE GERMANY, ADOLF HITLER, LEADER OF THE NAZI PARTY, REARMED THE NATION AND SIGNED STRATEGIC TREATIES WITH ITALY AND JAPAN TO FURTHER HIS AMBITIONS OF WORLD DOMINATION. HITLERS INVASION OF POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 1939 DROVE GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY, MARKING THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II. OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS, THE CONFLICT WOULD TAKE MORE LIVES AND DESTROY MORE LAND AND PROPERTY AROUND THE GLOBE THAN ANY PREVIOUS WAR. AMONG THE ESTIMATED 45-60 MILLION PEOPLE KILLED WERE 6 MILLION JEWS MURDERED IN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS AS PART OF HITLER’S DIABOLICAL “FINAL SOLUTION,” NOW KNOWN AS THE HOLOCAUST.

पहिल्या महायुद्धानंतर दोस्त राष्ट्रांमुळे जर्मनीची दुर्दशा झाली होती आणि त्या पार्श्वभूमीवर जर्मन तरुणांच्या मनात सुडाचा अंगार पेटला होता. अशा परिस्थितीत नॅशनल सोशालिस्ट जर्मन वर्कर पार्टीची स्थापना झाली. त्याचा पुढारी म्हणून हिटलरची निवड झाली. त्याने कपटाने जर्मनीचं अध्यक्ष आणि पंतप्रधानपद मिळवलं. त्याच्या राक्षसी महत्वाकांक्षेमुळे दुसऱ्या महायुद्धाला सुरुवात झाली. हॉलंड, बेल्जियम, इटली, आफ्रिका इ. अनेक राष्ट्रांचा युद्धात सहभाग होत गेला. ते युद्ध कशा तऱ्हेने झालं, कोणाची सरशी झाली, कोण हरलं, त्या त्या युद्धाचे त्या त्या देशावर, बेटावर किंवा एखाद दुसऱ्या शहरावर काय परिणाम झाले, या युद्धाशी संबंधित प्रमुख व्यक्तींनी (जर्मनचा राष्ट्राध्यक्ष हिटलर, इटलीचा पंतप्रधान मुसोलिनी इ.), त्यांच्या स्वभावानुसार, आजूबाजूच्या परिस्थितीनुसार त्या त्या वेळी घेतलेले निर्णय आणि त्यांचे झालेले चांगले/वाईट परिणाम, सागरी लढाई, विमानातून झालेली लढाई, जमिनीवरील लढाई अशा तीन प्रकारे झालेल्या लढाईचे आकडेवारीनिशी संदर्भ इ. माहिती इत्थंभूतपणे देणारं पुस्तक आहे ’दुसरे जागतिक महायुद्ध.’ 

About the author

S. S. DESAI WAS BORN IN THE VILLAGE BALLI, GOA. HE COMPLETED HIS PRIMARY EDUCATION IN BALLI & HIGHER EDUCATION DONE IN PORTUGUESE IN MARGOA AND PANJI. HE READ SEVERAL BOOKS IN MARATHI, PORTUGUESE, FRENCH & ENGLISH. IN 1944 HE WENT TO PUNE TO BECOME A JOURNALIST HE WORK AS A SUB EDITOR FOR VARIOUS MARATHI DAILYS NAMELY; THE LOKSHAKTI, THE SAMACHAR, PRABHAT, THE SANYUKTIK MAHARASHTRA. HE LEFT JOURNALISM IN 1946 AND JOINED HANDS WITH BHARATIYA SANSKRUTI KOSH COMMITTEE WHICH WAS RUN BY MAHADEVSHASTRI JOSHI, WHERE HE WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT. THEN HE WAS APPOINTED BY THE COMMITTEE AS THE RESEARCH ASSISTANT. HE WAS THEN PROMOTED TO THE POST OF A FULL TIME RESEARCHER BY THE SAME COMMITTEE. BORN ON 25TH DAY OF THE MONTH JULY, YEAR 1917 IN THE VILLAGE BALLI, GOA COMPLETED HIS PRIMARY EDUCATION IN MARATHI LANGUAGE IN BALLI AND PALOLEM CANACONA. HIGHER STUDIES DONE IN PORTUGUESE IN MARGOA AND PANJI, GOA.