num_pages: 240
description: The effects of World War II were felt throughout Europe and beyond into Russia and as far as Africa. Whether Allied, Axis, or caught between the two, no one on the Continent escaped the war unscathed. A historian and veteran of the conflict, Charles Messenger illuminates the totality of war in Europe, capturing clearly the physical destruction, the mobilization of populations, and the changing political boundaries in each stage of the conflict.
language: English
title: The Second World War in Europe
titlecomplete: The Second World War in Europe (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
genres: History, World War II, War, Military History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 47
publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr