Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II 5 printing

Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II 5 printing 1984 [pdf 536sc 528c. 95.31mb] Recounts not only the military but the human drama. It also provides thirty five maps, each telling its own story about a crucial phase or battle. In this book the editors of the Reader's Digest present in text and photographs the story of the greatest conflict ever to engulf our globe. It ranges from the first German blitzkrieg that crushed Poland in 1939 to Japan's unconditional surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri six years later; from the prewar rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party to the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Selected photographs and first-person reports on major events of the war as viewed by world leaders, correspondents, historians, etc., Allied and Axis alike