One of America's foremost authorities on recent European history writes the story of World War II. Simply but dramatically he sketches the background of the conflict, the hatreds and inequalities growing out of World War I, the political and economical turmoil of the world between wars, the rise of the great dictators. From the desperate heroism of Dunkirk and the Philippines to the dropping of the atom bomb, here is the long, hard struggle between the dictators and the free world. Hitler's conquest of Europe, the "phony" war, the fall of France, the bombing of London, the Russian and African campaigns, the U-boat war, the war in the Pacific, and at last the great Allied victories that brought an end to the dictators.

Profusely illustrated with the photographs which are memorable in themselves, this is a book for all ages.

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