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A comprehensive introduction to an important and fascinating subject. Paul Dowswell's informative and accessible text will immerse readers in the era. Provides a genuinely international perspective, showing how people all over the world were affected by the war. Internet links to websites with movie clips, original documents, online investigations and more.
Visit Usborne Quicklinks for links to websites with video clips, newsreels, photos, maps and timelines of the Second World War, and eyewitness accounts of people who fought and lived through it.