Using an amazing collection of maps from the Imperial War Museum archives, showing how – pre-computer - maps were used as a means of momentarily pinning down the action, they also recorded the past – damage from aerial bombardment and into the future with the Cold War and Hiroshima. Although copiously illustrated, it's not a coffee table album, you won't be able to read all the map details or even understand the language of some of them, it's a comprehensive history showing the necessity of maps in military situations for both those on the ground and those back in HQ. ~ Sue Baker
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Types of maps featured: * Strategic maps showing theatres of war, frontiers and occupied territories * Maps covering key battles and offensives on major fronts * Planning and operations maps showing defences in detail * Propaganda and educational maps for the armed forces and general public * Maps showing dispositions of Allied and enemy forces * Bomber and V-weapon target maps Descriptions of key historical events accompany the maps, giving an illustrated history of the war from an expert historian. Key topics covered include * 1939: Invasion of Poland * 1940: German invasion of Low Countries & France * 1940: Battle of Britain & German invasion threat * Dec 1941: Pearl Harbor * 1942: Turning points: Midway, Alamein, Stalingrad * 1941-45: Barbarossa and the Eastern Front * The War at Sea * The advances to Jerusalem, Damascus and Baghdad * The War in the Air * 1944: Neptune & Overlord; D-Day & liberation of France
Mapping the Second World War The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945 features in the following genres: History, Biographies & Autobiographies, History and Archaeology, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Mapping the Second World War The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945 is available in Hardback
Mapping the Second World War The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945 was written by Peter Chasseaud, The Imperial War Museum and published by Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Mapping the Second World War The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945 has 303 pages
