Life: World War II

This volume in its oversize format commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the war's outbreak with dozens of maps and chronologies, as well as over a thousand photographs. Organized year by year, flashing from battlefield to battlefield and back to the home front, this book provides an eagle-eye's view of the century's most complex and sprawling event. Life:World War II contains many of the world's greatest photographs, illuminated by an insightful text, captions and annual summaries of the war's progress. Some of the pictures--by such renowned photographers as Robert Capa, Eugene Smith, Margaret Bourke-White and Carl Mydans--are familiar classics. Others have never before been published. This is an important and fascinating documentation of the causes, actions and effects of the Second World War.