Provides information such as military commander profiles, the war's armaments and battlefronts, timelines, oral histories, and the political, social, and econom

"First published in 1995 as The Oxford companion to the Second World War "--Verso.

WWII began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalition but eventually widened to include most of the nations of the world. It e

Providing a comprehensive and authoritative summary of all the available facts and figures relating to World War II, this text is divided into nine sections for

An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds