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World War II from above, a history in maps and satellite photographs, Major General Julian Thompson

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World War II from above, a history in maps and satellite photographs, Major General Julian Thompson

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eng

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contains biographical information

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

World War II from above

Responsibility statement

Major General Julian Thompson

Sub title

a history in maps and satellite photographs

Summary

Written by a highly decorated soldier and leading military history expert, this is an innovative, richly detailed and visually stunning overview of history's most destructive conflict. World War II from Above offers a never-before-seen combination of annotated satellite images and expertly drawn battle maps. It brings the war vividly and dramatically to life by showing the actual landscapes where battles took place along with specially commissioned annotations depicting remarkable events, troop movements, heroic last stands, or even where individual soldiers stood or fell. Enhanced Google Earth images, along with specially commissioned battle maps show every facet of the conflict in exceptional detail, including the key milestones of World War II: the invasion of France, Germany's first blitzkrieg offensives, the Battle of Alamein, Monte Cassino, Arnhem, the invasion of Sicily, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, D-Day and the final push to Berlin, along with a host of other strategic and battle maps from every geographical location

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Sedan 10-15 May 1940 -- Dieppe 19 August 1942 -- Guadalcanal 7 August - 8 February 1942 -- Gazala 26 May - 17 June 1942-- El Alamein 23 October - 4 November 1942 -- Stalingrad 12 September 1942 - 3 February 1943 -- Tunisia 17 November 1942 - 13 May 1943 -- Sicily 10 July - 17 August 1943 -- Cassino Breakout 11 January - 18 May 1944 -- Tarawa 20 Novemenber 1943 -- Kohima 4 April - 22 June 1944 -- Imphal 15 March - 13 July 1944 -- D-Day: the airborne assault 6 June 1944 -- D-Day: the seaborne assault 6 June 1944 -- The battle of Normandy 7 June - 25 August 1994 -- Operation Dragoon 15 August - 14 September 1944 --The battle for Arnhem 7 - 25 September 1944 -- Battle of Leyte Gulf 23 - 25 October 1944 -- Walcheren 1 November 1944 -- The Battle of the Bulge 16 - 26 December 1944 -- Operation Plunder and Varsity 23 - 24 March 1945 -- Berlin - the fall 16 April - 2 May 1945 -- Operation Roast 1 April - 2 May 1945 -- Iwo Jima 19 February - 26 March 1945 -- Operation Iceberg 1 April - 22 June 1945 -- Index -- Acknowledgements

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World War Two from above

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