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World War II

From the first strike of the Wehrmacht on Poland in 1939 to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri in 1945, the war is shown and described so the significance is seen in historical perspective while its human impact is powerfully felt
Print Book, English, ©1985
American Heritage, New York, ©1985
372 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9780828103312, 0828103313
11782574
The march to the abyss
Blitzkrieg
England alone
Arsenal of democracy
Japan strikes
War at sea
The desert war
The war in Russia
The politics of world war
Counterattack in the Pacific
Italy
Over here
The air war
The home fronts
Assault on fortress Europe
Closing in on Japan
Smashing the third Reich
The end of the rising sun
The legacy
Chronology