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World War II

Call Number

  • J 940.53 ADAM (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Edition

American edition, Revised edition, New edition.

Publication Information

London ; New York : DK, in association with the Imperial War Museum, 2021.

Physical Description

72 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.

Summary

Photographs and illustrations describe the events of World War II, from the British, French, Italian, and German pre-war preparations to the atomic bomb and defeat of Japan and the German surrender.

Notes

Includes index.

"First American edition, 2000." -- Title page verso.

Contents

  • A world divided
  • Heading to war
  • Preparing for the worst
  • Lightning war
  • Occupation
  • Resistance
  • German army
  • The Battle of Britain
  • Bombing raids
  • Total war
  • In enemy territory
  • The prisoners
  • Code-breakers
  • America at war
  • Women at work
  • The Pacific
  • Japan
  • The Battle of the Atlantic
  • Stalingard
  • Inside the Soviet Union
  • Desert fighting
  • Propaganda
  • The Holocaust
  • D-Day invasion
  • Liberation
  • The atomic bomb
  • Victory
  • The aftermath
  • Did you know?

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