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Incredible multimedia profiles of World War II's most significant battles make World War II the next best thing to a time machine. With realistic maps, detailed accounts and vibrant illustrations, the book manages to transport the reader to World War II battles.Using state-of-the-art technology, special microchips translate the contours of a two-dimensional maps of battlefields into realistic renderings of actual landscapes. Illustrators then overlay these maps with all of the information at their fingertips-troop movement, weapon deployment, terrain conditions and weather.The book then brings to bear all the other available details of each battle, including battle plans, troop formations, strikes and counter strikes and troop strength. From this birds' eye vantage point, the reader is able to piece together the big picture of each battle, and analyze the tactics and strategies at play.World War II also includes profiles of the commanders outlining their abilities and backgrounds. Coupled with hundreds of colorful illustrations, the book's detailed maps and wealth of information put the reader in the shoes of a soldier at the D-Day assault on Omaha beach, the Battle of the Bulge and the US dive-bomber attack on Japanese aircraft carriers. Prepare to see what is perhaps one of the most significant wars of our time as you've never seen it before.

Inspired by my father’s memories and those of my own, I undertook to assemble the stories of several persons on World War II. I happened to be connected in one way or the other to those people. This war has and still does impress upon me because of the madness of its initiators, the unreserved support by the mass of the German population, the collaboration of traitors and the resistance by the right ones.The latter deserve our respect.

World War II was a global conflict that split the majority of the worlds nations into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II is deemed to have begun in Europe in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, resulting in the British and French declarations of war. The complexion of the war was changed completely in 1941 by the German invasion of the USSR in June and the Japanese attack on the USA in December. The Germans over-reached themselves in the USSR. In the Pacific the USA began to wrest back the initiative in mid 1942 and in campaigns steadily drove the Imperial Japanese back. In the west the USA first committed its forces in North-West Africa from November 1943, and then with the British and other allies in Italy from July 1943, and in northern and southern France during June and August 1944. From there the Allies drove back the Germans on the Western Front, securing total victory in May 1945. The USA devastated Japan, contributing to the ending of the war, by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.