Another popular book which had three publishers from 1976 to 1999.

This is one of the last four books in the Knowing British History series intended for slightly older pupils. Follow up reading and research is encouraged. Illustrated by Belinda Swanson it includes the usual generous number of photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams and has exercise questions and suggestions for teachers. There is a 1939-45 Time Chart.

Twenty chapters cover The Road to War, Blitzkrieg, The Battle of Britain, Operation Babarossa, Pearl Harbour, The Desert War, Stalingrad,The War at Sea, the Battle of the Atlantic,the Home Front, Shortages, Voluntary Service, Hitler's Europe, The Invasion of Italy, Bombers, War in the Pacific, D-Day Landings, The V-Weapons, the Defeat of Germany and Victory in the Pacific.

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