From 1937, when the Japanese initiated a full-scale war with China, through Japan's surrender to the Allies in 1945, the world was in the throes of the greatest, most destructive conflict in human history. A singular visual history of that world-altering event, World War II: 365 Days, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, includes more than 500 color and black and white images drawn from the incomparable collections of the Library of Congress. Photos, cartoons, posters, book illustrations, maps, illustrated envelopes, Allied and Axis propaganda pamphlets, and eye-witness drawings are complemented by succinct text that places each image in context and explores the topics into which the book is divided: "Prelude"; "Wars East and West: 1937-1939"; "Blitzkrieg: 1940"; "A Global Conflict: 1941"; "Axis versus Allies"; "The Axis Ascendant: 1942"; "Total War"; "The Tide Begins to Turn: 1943"; "The Allies Close In: 1944"; "The Most Terrible Conflict"; "Unconditional Surrenders: 1945"; "Aftermath."

Hitler and Goring, Roosevelt and Churchill, Mussolini and Ciano, Marshall and Eisenhower, Hirohito and Yamamoto, Patton and Montgomery are among the major World War II figures that appear in its pages. But World War II: 365 Days is much more thatn a gallery of major figures and events. It is a vivid mosaic of the battlefield and home front experiences of the "ordinary" people who endured years of destruction and rending uncertainty. Quotations from diaries, letters, and recorded interviews lace through the text, adding to the immediacy of the narrative. Many of those quotes, and a number of unique images, come from the growing archives of the Library's Veterans History Project, which gathers first-hand accounts of war experiences from American veterans.

Author/Creator: Margaret E. Wagner with an introduction by David M. Kennedy

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Library of Congress

Description: Hardcover, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 752 pages, more than 500 color and black & white illustrations

ISBN: 978-0-8109-9637-3

Price: $29.95

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Product #: 21107112