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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Cover has some wear. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> World War II was a drama of colossal proportions; it was enacted on a vast stage with a cast of millions in prominent roles and with millions more in supporting parts. The action raged from the sprawling swirling tank battles in the deserts of North Africa to the titanic clashes of far-flung armadas thundering their guns across the far reaches of the Pacific; from the massive thousand-plane bombing assaults on Germany to the relentless but fruitless siege of the frozen unconquerable bastions of Sta- lingrad; from amphibious invasion and airborne strike in the pre- H-hour darkness of D-day to the scores of Marine assaults on the hitherto anonymous islands in the remote stretches of the Pacific; from the searing heat of the jungles of New Guinea to the frozen battlefields of northern Europe; from the monstrous sins of the oven tenders at Dachau Belsen and Buchenwald to the solitude and misery of the POWs in the Philippines and Japan; and from the lonely rifleman with his M1 to the Enola Gay and its war-ending single weapon that ushered in the nu- clear age. The world was the stage for World War II; its pop- ulation was the cast. There were few persons military or civil- ian who were not touched by the drama organization and prodigies of production transportation and technology that (LL)