Perhaps the most complex, frightening, and destructive event in global history, the second world war saw the heights of human courage and the depth of human degradation. But world war ii continues to be the most important war in history because of the effect that it had on so many peoples lives and on so many countries. This book also looks at the enduring effects of world war ii during succeeding decades. The ballantines illustrated history of world war ii the violent century. This category is for articles on history books with world war ii as a topic see also. Learn about world war ii in your homeschool with curriculum and living books about the axis and allies, hitler, stalin, and fdr. A short history of world war ii is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of world war i to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940s.
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World war ii, one the darkest periods in the history of the world, raged from 1939 to 1945 and involved almost the entire world. There is no doubt this small hardcover book history of world war 11 by francis trevelyan miller, assisted by a staff of 200 experts is a collectors item. World war ii was a conflict between 1939 and 1945 that involved all the world s major countries. World war ii history books about the battle of okinawa. Using blitzkrieg tactics the country was quickly overtaken. A book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Europeanafricanmiddle eastern theater asiaticpacific theater american theater. The war in europe began in september 1939 when nazi germany, under adolf hitler, invaded poland. Fifty million people lost their lives between 1939 and 1945 and hundreds of millions more suffered injuries and wounds.
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