Title: A world in flames
Description: The one-volume history of the Second World War is a concise, forthright battle-by-battle account. A narrative of action. A World in Flames dwells on what happened more than on why it happened. In this respect it is a military history rather than a political one, but the military action is set in the broad perspective of the political background.

The reader witnesses Hitler's initial and over-whelming devastation of Europe. Japan's unprecedented victories in the Pacific, and then, during 1944-1945, the steady Allied push to win back the conquered countries. 

Martha Byrd Hoyle tells lucidly the story of each battle and campaign of a very confused and confusing war. She presents absorbing accounts of what happened at Stalingrad, Omaha Beach, and two Jima, without sacrificing the broad picture of the war's military developments and wide-ranging fronts. She can write about the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted nearly as long as the war itself, with as much immediacy as she can recount the rout of Rommel in North Africa. 

Well documented, this outline history contains many maps detailing the military operations.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945