The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II

U.S.A.: Gramercy, 1995. This book is a fascinating, objective and comprehensive account of the deciding final days of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. A detailed pictorial history, the book includes almost nine hundred maps, charts, documents, and period photographs. Firsthand accounts, messages, diary entries, letters, and other personal papers by Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Patton, Montgomery, De Gaulle, Truman, and other important leaders, together with eyewitness reports, enhance and documents the narrative and analysis. On the allied side there are accounts, based on the same kind of documentary evidence. Similarly, critical events in the last days of the war in the Pacific are treated in detail. Every student of World War II, every modern-history scholar, and every history buff will want to own this book and will consult it frequently. Foreword by Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant General USAF (Ret.) Translated from the German by Arnold Pomerans. Illustrated. 432 pages. Very slight shelf wear to top and bottom of spine on D/J.. 1st Gramercy Book Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fine/Very Good/fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback.