The marshall cavendish illustrated encyclopedia of world war ii

[Darrell]

The next set that I plan on reading through was collected by myself back in the early 1970's. Although the Publisher Marshall Cavendish is familiar to earlier series (the WW2 set of 128 Magazines), it is NOT the same series. These were hard cover books each of 140 pages. Sequentially numbers from Volume to Volume. In all there are 26 volumes.

I read them when I first received them in the mail some 40 years ago. I plan on getting through these as my next project. While the covers don't offer much in the way of visuals, the spines have the volume number and the brief description of what the volume covers.

Inside the cover is the below text:


Based on the original text by Lieutenant Colonel Eddy Bauer

CONSULTANT EDITOR

Brigadier General James L. Collins, Jr., U.S.A.
CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY,
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Editorial Director: Brian Innes
Editor-in-chief: Brigadier Peter Young, D.S.O., M.C., M.A.
Editor: Christopher Chant
Art Director: Jim Bridge

Copy: Orbis Publishing Limited 1972
Copy: Editions Alphee, Monaco 1966

Here we go:

[Darrell]

VOLUME 1 - Hitler's War (1936-1939)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 2 - The Fall of The West (1940)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 3 - The Axis Turns South (1940)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 4 - Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete (1941)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 5 - Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor (1941)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 6 - Atlantic Ordeal (1941 - 1942)

[feldpost 58]

Hi Darrell,

These volumes were (to my knowledge) never published in the UK.
Seems by this time the publishers were flogging a dead horse.

Best wishes,

John.

[Darrell]

VOLUME 7 - Crisis in the Desert (1942)

[oldflagswanted]

have seen these too...

...Publisher Marshall Cavendish ...hard cover books
...In all there are 26 volumes. ...received them in the
mail some 40 years ago. ...

Hello Darrell:
I've seen these over the years at flea markets, estate
and public library sales, often for around a dollar each.
As such I've usually cut out the poster pages and just
thrown the rest of the book(s) away, except for the
final volume with the NSDAP Org book in English with
nice reproduced flag plates.
..... OFW .....
..........
(My 1st WAF Avatar)

[Darrell]

Hi Ben, Yes the last edition is what you say. However, these came straight from the publisher back in the day. They are hardbound and never came with "poster pages". Perhaps you are confused with the History of the Second / First World War Magazines I have posted elsewhere? They did have huge posters bound in by the staples (which is how they were made).

[oldflagswanted]

about pages cut from books ...

Hi Ben, Yes the last edition is what you say. However,
these came straight from the publisher back in the day.
They are hardbound and never came with "poster pages".
Perhaps you are confused with the History of the Second /
First World War Magazines I have posted elsewhere? They
did have huge posters bound in by the staples (which is how
they were made).

Darrell:
No, speaking of the pages showing wartime posters
in these hardbound blue cover books. Pages are then
cut out of books, and are not "huge posters bound in
by staples", and the rest of the book is thrown away.
Often folks were sent the first 3 volumes on a trial review
basis, and not returned when subscription was ended
early - and again I'm not talking about the magazines.
Have 25K+ books packed away, so no room for duplicates.
OFW
(below) Prior to 2010 I disposed of my surplus books & such at shows.

[Darrell]

VOLUME 8 - Japan At High Tide (1942)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 9 - The Grand Alliance / End In Africa (1942-1943)

[Darrell]

VOLUME 10 - The Invasion of Italy / Guadalcanal (1943)