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Reader's digest illustrated story of World War II

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Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgements" (p. 518-519)

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Reader's digest illustrated story of World War II

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Selected photographs and first-person reports on major events of the war as viewed by world leaders, correspondents, historians, etc., Allied and Axis alike

I led the attack on Pearl Harbor / Mitsuo Fuchida -- Remember Pearl Harbor! / Blake Clark -- Why the sneak attack succeeded / Louis L. Snyder -- America on the brink of war / Eugene Lyons -- The fall of Singapore / Noel Barber -- Hitler's seizure of Europe / William L. Shirer -- Adolf Hitler : twisted genius of war -- Mein kampf (excerpts) / Adolf Hitler -- How and why Japan prepared for world war / Samuel Eliot Morison -- The Flying Tigers / Russell Whelan -- The miracle of Dunkirk / Winston Churchill -- Winston Churchill : man of the century -- The Battle of Britain / Winston Churchill -- The voice from London / Edward R. Murrow -- The sinking of the Bismarck / Russell Grenfell -- On board the Bismarck / Edwin Muller -- Britain rules the Mediterranean / S.L.A. Marshall -- The gallant defense of the Philippines / Warren J. Clear -- Douglas MacArthur : hero of the Philippines -- Disaster, and glory, in the Philippines / Douglas MacArthur -- Death march from Bataan / William Dyess -- Doolittle bombs Tokyo / S.L. Marshall -- The Battle of the Coral Sea / Samuel Eliot Morison -- Dress rehearsal : the story of Dieppe / Quentin Reynolds -- Midway : turning point in the Pacific / J. Bryan III -- Action at Guadalcanal, "Island of Death" / Frank O. Hough -- Fighting back in New Guinea / George H. Johnston -- Tarawa : conquest of the unconquerable / Robert Leckie -- The Germans invade Russia / William L. Shirer -- A march to oblivion / S.L.A. Marshall -- Erwin Rommel : the "Desert Fox" -- Bernard Law Montgomery : the "Spartan General" -- Two battles that stopped Rommel / Viscount Montgomery of Alamein -- "Operation Torch" / Karl Detzer -- Dwight D. Eisenhower : leader of the Allies -- The American soldier in North Africa / Ernie Pyle -- Raid on Regensburg / Beirne Lay, Jr. -- "Operation Husky" : the Sicily campaign -- The invasion of Italy / J.F.C. Fuller -- Overlord : the Allies' triumph in Normandy / Kenneth S. Davis -- Airdrop : beginning of the longest day / Cornelius Ryan -- First wave at Omaha Beach / S.L.A. Marshall -- The plot to kill Hitler / Georges Blond -- The Battle of the Bulge / S.L.A. Marshall -- The capture of Remagen Bridge / Ken Hechler -- Roosevelt's death / John Toland -- The battle for Berlin / Cornelius Ryan -- The end of a tyrant / H.R. Trevor-Roper -- Nazi death factory at Buchenwald / Edward R. Murrow -- Victory message to the troops / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Banzai on Spain / Edmund G. Love -- The Battle of the Philippine Sea / Peter Maas -- The greatest sea fight : Leyte Gulf / Hanson W. Baldwin -- Closing in on Japan / Iwo Jima / Robert Leckie -- To the summit of Suribachi with the flag / Richard Wheeler -- Hold that line, or die / Mitchell Dana -- The ultimate weapon / Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II