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	Reference	M224
	Publisher	London, Collins
	Year	1974
	ISBN	0002119528
	Condition	VG-/VG (?)

The total with shipping for this book within the UK would be £7.30.

5th imp, hardback in good clean condition; 340 pages.  Contains 26 maps, source notes, a chronology, biographical notes and bibliography. B&w photo illustrations throughout.  Has some age discoloration to edges of hard covers. Dj very good, text clean and unmarked.

Published in association with Thames television, this is a vivid and detailed account of the most terrible war the world has ever known. There are 15 different sections to cover the following theatres of war:

Beginningsof war - Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, rearmament, Chamberlain, appeasement, war is declared.  

 The Phoney War - Rusians invade Finland etc. 

The Fall of France - Dunkirk, Churchill, French Armistice.   Battle of Britain.  Battle of the Atlantic.  War in the Desert.  Campaign in Italy.  Victory in the USSR.  Struggle for the Pacific - Pearl Harbour, Singapore, Burma etc..   Burma regained.  The Politics of War.  Reconquest of Western Europe.  Death and Resistance in the Occupied Countries.   Strategic Bombing.  The Legacies of War.

This is a concise but graphic account of WWII from Arnold-Forster, who was awarded the DSO and DSC, having served throughout the war first as a merchant seaman and then in the Royal Navy.  As a newspaper man  he was blockaded in berlin in 1948 and has reported on post war Europe.

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