Routledge Atlas of the Second World War

Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of his generation. An Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he is the official biographer of Churchill and the author of eighty-two books, among them Churchill - A Life; The Second World War; D-Day; The Day the War Ended and the three-volume A History of the Twentieth Century. For more information please visit http://www.martingilbert.com.

• Introduction. Acknowledgements Section 1: From the German Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France Section 2: Britain Alone and its Allies Section 3: The Soviet Union Becomes an Allied Power Section 4: Japan and the United States Enter the War Section 5: The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942 and Beyond Section 6: The Unarmed and the Civilians Section 7: Total War Section 8: Year of Decision: 1944 Section 9: The Defeat of Germany Section 10: The Defeat of Japan Section 11: Global War. Aftermath. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

'This really is a brilliantly useful book … All in all, this is an outstanding reference work that can also be enjoyed as an unusual graphic history of the Second World War and its many political, economic and military dimensions.’ – Military Illustrated"Historian Gilbert's latest atlas covers all aspects of WWII: military, air, and naval battles, compaigns, and raids; the sufferings of civilians, Holocaust victims, forced laborers, POWs, postwar expellees, and displaced persons; economic and social issues; and the aftermath, including locations of war cemeteries ..." - E. F. Konerding, Wesleyan University (CHOICE)'of the greatest interest and originality' - Sir John Keegan"Sir Martin Gilbert's Atlas of the Second World War is a work of extraordinary scholarship. His nearly 250 annotated maps clarify every component of the global conflict. No university, library, historian – or anyone interested in World War II – will want to be without it." - Henry Kissinger