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World War II
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.
Series
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?