World War II: Defining Moments

World War II defined the structure of the modern world. With conflict on land, sea, and in the air, from Arctic to Australia, North Atlantic to South Pacific, Far East to the Western Isles, it affected everyone on the planet and is a source of continuing and unabating interest. Difining Moments: World War II seeks to explain the complexities of this war fought on many fronts by cutting it down to the key moments the key battles, events, decisions, and strategies. Some are obvious September 1, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944, D-Day some less so, January 20, 1942, the day the Wannsee Conference took place outside Berlin and worked out the mechanics of the Final Solution, January 16, 1945 the day that US First and Third Armies linked up after the Battle of the Bulge and sounded the death knell of the Third Reich.Illustrated with over 200 photographs, studded with fact boxes to provide easy to assimilate information. Defining Moment: World War II is an indispensible reference to the defining war of the twentieth century.