Atlas of World War II

by Barrie Pitt and Frances Pitt

Book Overview

Here is one of the most ambitious military atlases ever published, providing a month-by-month chronicle of the first genuinely global conflict in the history of warfare. Illustrated. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333448812
• ISBN13: 9780333448816
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A history buff

This book has been a constant source of reference for me in the many years I've owned it. For a strategic look at WWII you can't do better. With the European and Pacific theatres shown side-by-side it's easy to see how the various campaigns unfolded and often affected one another although half a world away. Great book!

A good atlas for getting the really big picture.

This atlas gives a two-page spread of the world for each month of the war, with text descriptions and small maps detailing the major events that month (e.g., Operation Crusader, Stalingrad). I find the text to be usually quite detailed and succinct for the small space it inhabits. Full-page text blocks detail the big operations, such as D-Day, Barbarossa, the Japanese expansion into the Pacific, etc. This format works very well for seeing the global scale of the conflict, and makes a very good general reference. Worthy of note are the front- and endpapers that show the pre- and postwar situations.