Great Photographs of World War II

Great Photographs of World War II
Author: Neil Kagan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

Oxmoor House Great Photographs of World War II (Collectors Edition) The most evocative collection of World War II photographs ever published. Selected by Time Life editors from thousands of images from museums and collections around the world, these photographs tell the haunting story of the war's heroes and horrors. Famous images from LIFE magazine are juxtaposed with rare photographs to give us a unique glimpse of war through the eyes of soldiers and civilians caught up in the most destructive conflict of all time. The editors have assembled over 280 gripping images into 25 chronological photo essays. Here, the most cataclysmic events of the war, from the Battle of Britain and the attack on Pearl Harbor to D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich, are defined by some of the most dramatic photographs of the 20th century. February 2004280+ photos 304 pages1 0 1/2" x 10 1/4" Hardcover with jacket Carton 6, Item 130057 ISBN 0-8487-2818-1 $39.95 US UPC 7-49075-30057-7

Great Photographs of the Civil War

Great Photographs of the Civil War
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

Great Photographs of the Civil War brings together in one volume the most evocative Civil War photographs ever published. The images--selected by Time Life editors from thousands of photographs preserved in museums and collections around the country--tell the epic story of a nation divided. Reflected here are the tireless efforts of pioneering photographers who used heavy equipment and portable darkrooms mounted on wagon beds to record this fateful struggle. The editors have assembled 300 gripping images, some of them recognized classics and others rarely seen, into 20 chronological photo essays. Here, the crucial events of the war, from the bloodiest day at Antietam and the Confederate high tide at Gettysburg to the battles for Atlanta and the climactic siege of Petersburg, are conveyed with power and precision in the defining photographs of the conflict that redefined our nation.

Storm of Eagles

Storm of Eagles
Author: John Dibbs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 147282301X

Soaring high above the fields and cities of Europe and Asia as well as the vast expanse of the Pacific, Allied and Axis pilots engaged in a deadly battle for control of the skies in World War II. Whoever won the skies would win the war. Published in association with the National Museum of World War II Aviation, Storm of Eagles is a fully illustrated coffee-table book that brings together classic as well as never-before-seen wartime images. Compiled by one of the world's premier aviation photographers and historians, this remarkable volume is a must-have for anyone interested in World War II aviation.

Memories of World War II

Memories of World War II
Author: The Associated Press
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-05-18
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780810950139

The Associated Press is participating in the dedication of the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. with this definitive presentation of their most significant and influential photos relating to World War II.

Atlas of World War II

Atlas of World War II
Author: Stephen Hyslop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 1426219717

Prelude to war, 1941: Blitzkrieg -- Prelude to war, 1943: war in the Pacific -- 1942-1944: breaking Hitler's grip -- 1944-1945: victory over Germany -- 1943-1945: defeating Japan.

Germany at War

Germany at War
Author: George Forty
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9781844429349

"Germany at War is a unique collection of color photographs of the German experience of the Second World War. It covers the course of the war, from Hitler's assumption of power in the 1930s to the destruction of Berlin and Munich and the defeat of Nazism by the Allies, with many rare or unseen images, specially researched in German archives, covering: the rise of Nazism; rearmament and the war machine; the persecution of the Jews and other minorities; early success then the defeat on the Eastern front; campaigns in Europe and North Africa; everyday life in occupied territories; propaganda and the suppression of opposition; life on the home front during wartime; the final days of the war and the aftermath." --

Life Goes to War

Life Goes to War
Author: Time-Life Films
Publisher: Time Life Education
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1977
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780316849012

Pictures created by scores of Life photographers and artists document the victories and losses of the Second World War and capture the many moods of wartime America

The First World War in Photographs

The First World War in Photographs
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781844423194

Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television programmes devoted to it. The First World War in Photographs showcases 400 of the best images from the Imperial War Museum's superb photographic archive, many never before published. Written by leading military historian Richard Holmes, the book presents the photographs in year-by-year chapters, covering all the great battles of the war and every theatre of operations. Dramatic, hard hitting and intensely moving, this book is a unique visual testament to the many millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war.