In ” The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War”, Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war`s political, military, economic & social history through 247 maps. Each map has been specially drawn for this atlas, many of them covering topics that have not previously been mapped. The atlas covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the defeat of Japan in August 1945, including the Blitz, the Fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the naval Battles of the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean & the Pacific, Dieppe, Stalingrad, Midway, the Normandy Landings, the bombing of Warsaw, London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Burma Railway, concentration camps & slave labor camps, & prisoner-of-war camps in Europe, the Americas & the Far East. Focusing on the human
- & inhuman
- aspects of the war, ” The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War”
Includes:: examination of: Military, naval & air campaigns on all the war fronts; The war on l&, at sea & in the air; The economic & social aspects of the war; The global nature of the war, in armed combat & in suffering; The impact of the war on civilians, both under occupation, & as deportees & refugees; The aftermath of the war: the post-war political & national boundaries; war graves, & the human cost of the war on every continent.