Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945

Experience the Second World War as you travel through time and follow the conflict of the war from 1939 to 1945 with this unique and invaluable volume!

From the earliest onslaught of troops in the Invasion of Poland to the D-Day and the Liberation of France. Features historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian. The events of the battles are detailed and illustrated, artfully telling a story of what occurred through maps with handwritten notes from the front lines. Complete with detailed courses of action for air strikes and naval battles along with annotated maps that illustrated the planned supply routes and attacks for soldiers is pictures of ruins, troops, world leaders, newspaper clippings, and more!

Types of maps featured:

Maps cover key battles and offensives on major fronts

Planning and operations maps showing defenses in detail

Maps showing dispositions of Allied and enemy forces

Bomber and V-weapon target maps

Key topics include:

1939: Invasion of Poland

1940: German invasion of the Low Countries & France

1940: Battle of Britain & German invasion threat

1941: Pearl Harbor

1941-1945: Barbarossa and the Eastern Front

1942: Turning Points: midway, Alamein, Stalingrad

The War at Sea

The War in the Air

1944: Neptune & Overlord; D-Day & liberation of France

Dr Peter Chasseaud is a historian of military cartography, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the founder of the Historical Military Mapping Group of the British cartographic Society and a member of the Defense Surveyors' Association. He is the author of Mapping the First World War and other definitive works on trench mapping and toponymy such as Mapping the Second World War, in which he applies his unrivalled expertise to the field of 1939-1945 military maps.