Chandler, David G.

World War II on Land - 20 Representative Land Battles of the 2nd World War

      London / New York Mallard Pub. 1990. 1990 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New , non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Large handsome book, over 10 x 9" isize ... 176 pages with bibliography ... illustrated with many B&W archival photographs & maps throughout ..... World War Two ... From September 1939 to August 1945 ... raged the most devastating war known in the history of the world , WWII .... It developed from a European struggle ... into one of truly global proportions ... spreading into North & East Africa ... Russia ... & then Asia & the Pacific Basin ..... The number of participating nations escalated rapidly ... & with the entry of Japan ... & the United States ... into the war, it also came to include the Sino-Japanese conflict that had begun in 1933 .... By its close, at least 55 million people ... soldiers, sailors, airmen & civilian men, women & children ... lay dead ... and incalculable millions had their lives affected ... a few for the better ... but the vast majority for the worse .... Winston Churchill once described battles as ' punctuation marks on the pag es of secular history '..... In selecting 20 representative Land battles from the several hundred that were fought ... the author of this book has attempted to show the geographical spread of the fighting ... which ranged across Russian steppe s ... Asian jungles ... African deserts & Pacific & Mediterranean islands ... as well as Western European land areas ... together with the different types of fighting involved .... To help write the 20 chapters ... each devoted to describing & a nalyzing a single battle ... author David Chandler has recruited 5 colleagues from his department of War Studies & International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst , England .... The result is this book ... a series of dramatic glimp ses of important military moments in the Second World War ... David Chandler is president of Honor of the British Commission for Military History & was appointed a Trustee of the Royal Tower Armouries ... he also serves on the councils of both the S ociety for Army Historical Research & the Army Records Society .... The deeply moving photographs, many full-page, and the extremely well-researched text make this an invaluable reference ... " World War II on Land " ... edited by David G. Chandler ... president of the British Commission for Military History & Trustee of the Royal Tower Armouries , Armory illustrated published by Mallard Press , London / New York ... 1990 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *** Securely packed for safe delivery ~ We've been shipping books across North America and around the World, since 1965 ~ Family owned & operated for more than 40 years ~ Online sellers for 10 years *** First Edition New Hard Cover in Dust Jacket 10-1/2 x 9"; First Edition. 0792453743 New Photos & Maps