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Story of World War II, the

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Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, this sweeping narrative history covers the entire war and includes new material on the fighting in the Pacific, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities.

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Contents

PREFACE

  • The Nazi Juggernaut
  • Britain Stands Alone
  • From the Vistula to the Volga
  • The Rising Sun
  • The Hard Way Back
  • The Dead of Tarawa
  • Up the Bloody Boot
  • The Air War
  • The Great Invasion
  • From Normandy to Germany
  • The Battle of the Bulge
  • The Marianas
  • A Marine at Peleliu
  • The Return
  • The B-29s
  • Make Them Remember
  • From the Volga to the Oder
  • Across the Rhine
  • Iwo Jima
  • Okinawa
  • The Setting Sun
  • Victory

    NOTES

    INDEX

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    Revised and updated by Donald L. Miller, original text by Henry Steele Commager

    Summary

    Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.

    Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative.

    Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

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    Martin Blumenson Author of Patton Beautifully done. Donald Miller has made combat, wherever it occurred in World War II, alive and immediate.

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