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The use of timelines effectively outlines the major events of World War II both in the Pacific as well as in Europe and North Africa. Detailed text focuses on the battles that defined Americas involvement in the Pacific theater, while historical photographs help readers to visualize the events.

In this engrossing volume, readers learn the stories and strategies behind many of the seminal moments of World War II from the invasion of Poland to the storming of Normandy beaches on D-Day. A helpful timeline pinpoints the most important dates in the European and North African theaters, as well as on the Pacific front.

Chronicles the three months following V-E Day, discussing the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini, the liberation of concentration camps, and the beginning of the Potsdam Conference.

Discusses how major events, movements, and people of the twentieth century, including the Civil Rights movement, World War II, Vietnam War, Eva Per?n, and Albert Einstein, have been depicted in specific literary works by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, and Nadine Gordimer.