A comprehensive and informative account of the greatest conflictin the history of the worldIllustrated with over 300 black and white and color photographs and artworksTwenty-six full-color maps showing what happened during specific engagementson land and sea, and in the airEach chapter includes illustrated, self-contained feature boxes on a range of topics,including: The War in Spain, Hitler, The SS, Vidkun Quisling, Dunkirk,The Spitfire, The Messerschmitt, Mussolini, Stalin, The Fall of Singapore, U-boats,The Afrika Korps and The Desert Rats, The Siege of Leningrad, The French Resistance,The White Rose Underground, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,The Atomic Bomb, and many more