From blitzkrieg and blackout to ghettos and Guadalcanal, World War II was a conflict that touched all nations and penetrated all aspects of people's lives. Sixt

This text is an authoritative reference work covering a wide breadth of topics on all things associated with World War II. Entries cover topics such as strategy

In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not

World War II was the bloodiest and farthest-reaching military conflict in human history, which resulted in the annihilation of some 60 million people. This auth

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