The Second World War. Illustrated encyclopedia

This illustrated encyclopedia is devoted to the tragic and heroic events of the Second World War of 1939-1945. The capacious articles presented here in chronological order contain exhaustive objectively submitted information about the political and economic situation in Europe and the world in the prewar and war years. Attention was paid to the modernization of weapons, the result of which was the use of one of the opposing sides of the nuclear weapons. Detailed maps of key battles and large -scale combat operations in Italy, Algeria and Japan, in the Pacific and Atlantic basins, in the northern, eastern and other directions of conducting military operations deserve special attention. Rare preserved documents and excerpts from the press of that time, archival photographs and biographical certificates, representing the reader of both famous and little -known, but no less influential political and military figures of opposing coalitions, explain and complement the information presented.
The publication is addressed to everyone who is interested in military history