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Fine condition black heavy oversized boards with blind-stamped front cover lettering and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Eric Sevareid; Index; Picture Credits and Acknowledgments. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, black-and-white photographs, maps and front and rear endpapers containing Chronology. Some of the jacket gloss has crinkled in areas (see photographs) and some rear upper jacket edge crinkling (see photos). "WW II was the last great conflict that clearly pitted good against evil on a world scale. Now, this century's most immense human drama - a saga that involved, in one way or another, virtually every man, woman, and child on earth - unfolds again in the pages of this magnificent history from the editors of Time-Life Books. WW II is based on the bestselling thirty-nine volume Time - Life Books series World War II, the largest work ever published on the Second World War. It features an all-new text especially written for this edition as well as the very best photos, maps, charts, diagrams, and commissioned art culled from Time - Life Books' sources around the world. Nowhere else will today's reader's find such a complete picture of the entire war - from the sowing of the seeds of international hostility through the bloody conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific to the aftermath, when the former enemies struggled to regroup and rebuild. Here are the leaders - Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini - all the heroes and villains whose majestic dreams and vile ambitions clashed on the world stage. Here are the great generals and admirals who master-minded some of the most amazing battles in history and the great engines of war with which they fought them - the Panzer, the aircraft carrier, the submarine, the fighters and bombers from the Spitfire and the Zero to the Thunderbolt and the B-29 Super-fortress - weapons that dominated and defined the nature of modern warfare. Here, most of all, are the young soldiers and sailors and airmen who valiantly threw themselves into battle, never knowing whether they would see another sunrise, willing to die for a cause greater than themselves. WW II provides vivid accounts of all those military actions whose names chill the blood for the generations that lived through them, whose valor and sacrifice they called forth: Dunkirk, Midway, Okinawa, Salerno, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, the Bulge. A special photo essay on the Holocaust provides mute testimony to the horror of the age. For the reader who remembers these events, they will come back with stunning force, and what was poorly understood then will now be seen clearly. For the reader who was too young to remember this near Apocalypse, the ways in which it changed the world forever will be revealed. Profusely illustrated and brilliantly written to bring the grandeur, triumph, and agony of this epic conflict into the light of today's world, WW II is a monumental book, worthy of the great subject it illuminates." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 004992
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