Chronicle of the Second World War

Mercer, Derrik

1st edition. Large format, heavy item (2.7kg) 791 pages. A very good copy, hard covers sharp and clean, in similar d.j. Internally clean, bright and tight. This lavishly illustrated book gives a month by month account of the Second World War. It draws on all the information available post -war - code-breaking, espionage, commando raids, top-level military and political wrangling, developments in weaponry and the horrors of the Holocaust, information which often remained classified as top secret for years after the war. Contains all the world shattering events; the Blitzkrieg through Poland and France, the 'Battle of Britain,' El Alamein, Pearl Harbour, Stalingrad, D Day, the fall of Berlin, and Hiroshima. Alongside the horrors of war we are made aware of life on the home front, from the miseries of ration queues to the music of Glen Miller. Events are reported as though they had just happened and are illustrated with hundreds of photos and 175 specially commissioned maps and diagrams. Details are also given of the German home front previously only published in Germany, with contributions from writers in Australia, France and North America. There are personal memoirs from personalities such as Spike Milligan, Denis Healy, Vera Lynn, Ludovic Kennedy and Dr Robert Runcie. One appendix lists details of every individual from the British Empire who won the Victoria or George Cross; another devotes 56 pages to the technology of warfare - the machinery as it developed in all warring nations. A wonderful chronological sourcebook for anyone wanting a definitive account of events 1939-45.

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