Eyewitness History of Word War II: Blitzkrieg; Volume I, The Total Experience in Words and Photographs

New York, N.Y. Bantam Books, Inc., 1977. 11th Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 215, [9] pages. Bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Includes chapters on The Long Armistice; The Opening Guns; Appeasement in Our Time; the Battle Joined; Japan at the Brink; Blitzkrieg in the West; Appeasement in our Times; The Shame of Munich; The Nazi-Soviet Pact; The Battle Joined; Sitzkrieg: The Phony War; The War at Sea; Finland: The Winter War; "Exercise Weser"; The Seizure of Norway; and Blitzkrieg in the West. Mr. Rothberg received a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1947 and a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia in 1952. For the next seven years he was the editor of Free Europe Press, a division of Radio Free Europe. He was later a European correspondent for The National Observer and went on to teach at Hofstra, Columbia and St. John Fisher College in Rochester. The four volume set includes 500 photographs and 100.000 words. This set, and each individual volume, re-creates with urgency and immediacy every aspects of the most complex, tragic, and heroic era mankind had endured. Condition: Good.

Keywords: World War II, Fall of France, Appeasement, Blitzkrieg, Invasion of Poland, Dunkirk, Maginot Line, Panzers, Armored Warfare, Pictorial Works, Winter War, Exercise Weser

ISBN: 0553113055

[Book #82123]

Price: $20.00

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