Siege; Eyewitness History of World War II; The Total Experience in Words and Photographs, Volume 2 [Subtitle from front cover]
New York, N.Y. Bantam Books Inc., 1977. Tenth Printing [stated]. Mass Market Paperback. 215, [7] pages. Bookseller stamp inside the front cover. Some promotional text difficult to read on first page. Includes chapters on Their Finest Hour; Mediterranean Blitzkrieg; Drive Toward the East; and Days of Infamy. This second volume of the Eyewitness History of World War II opens with the dogged and courageous stand of the British against the ferocious onslaught of the Nazi war machine. It covers the War in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, the invasion of the Balkans and Greece, the harsh and brutal war in the North African desert, the suicidal German attack on Russia, and the fierce cruelty of the Winter War. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the string of Japanese victories in the far east conclude the volume. 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. This is the second volume of Eyewitness History of World War II which opens with the dogged and courageous stand of the British against the ferocious onslaught of the Nazi war machine. It covers the war in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, the invasion of the Balkans and Greece, the harsh and brutal war in the North African desert, the suicidal German attack on Russia and the fierce cruelty of the Winter War. The sneak attack on Pearl harbor and the string of Japanese victories in the Far East conclude this volume. 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: WWII, World War II, Second World War, Battle of Britain, Russian Front, Balkans, Battle of the Atlantic, North African Campaign, Pearl Harbor, Pictorial works
ISBN: 0553113062
[Book #82125]
Price: $20.00