The Faces of World War II
Subtitle: The Second World War In Words And Pictures
By: Captions and picture selection by Michael Walsh.
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781844036264
Description: Ranging from enforced confinement to trench warfare and mechanisation, this book shows the different aspects of this war. It pays tribute to all who fought and died, and won and lost for greater human rights and freedom. Structured by year, the book includes images of the major events from Blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbour. With over 17 million people perishing during the course of the conflict, brutality, suffering and slaughter are inevitably shown, and these pictures take their place alongside poignant and uplifting scenes of civilians, nurses and doctors fighting their own battles, and the endless task of clearing the battlefields and the brief moments of respite. This book remarkably captures the reality of war: the suffering, the toil and the hopelessness, as well as the mundane aspects of a world turned upside down in those seven fateful years.
Notes: Chiefly illustrations.
Table of contents: title: Author's Introduction
pagenum: 6; title: Pre-War: Rise of Nazism-Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
pagenum: 10; title: 1939: Germany invades Poland-Winter War
pagenum: 22; title: 1940: Churchill appointed Prime Minister-Operation Compass
pagenum: 46; title: 1941: War in the Mediterranea-Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
pagenum: 84; title: 1942: Singapore falls to Japan-Battle of Stalingrad
pagenum: 122; title: 1943: German defeat at Stalingrad-US "island-hoppin" campaign
pagenum: 162; title: 1944: Monte Cassino-Battle of the Bulge
pagenum: 198; title: 1945: Iwo-Jima-surrender of Japan
pagenum: 238; title: Postwar
pagenum: 272; title: Index
pagenum: 284; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 288