WORLD WAR II - TIME-LIFE Books

[Darrell]

The Next Set of Hardcover books I will read is the great looking set entitled "WORLD WAR II - TIME-LIFE Books". This set was published and released from 1977 through 1983.

There were a total of 39 books in the series. The unique thing about this set is the cover of each Volume when opened up presented one picture. There was no title or verbiage other than on the spine as you will see as I get to them.

Each Volume was over 200 pages.

Upon opening up the first Volume in the series, I found an original advertisement that was folded up inside the front cover. What a fitting way to open up this series than to show this ad in its entirety.

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Volume 1 - Prelude To War

Members of the infant Nazi party jam a battered truck that will take them to a rally in the Westphalian town of Herne. Impoverished as they were in the '20s - the swastika is crudely painted on pieces of cardboard - these Nazis, and others throughout Germany, already displayed the swaggering military bearing that many of their countrymen found both reassuring and compelling.

[Darrell]

Volume 2 - Blitzkrieg

German Infantrymen, under shellfire during the blitzkrieg through Belgium, dash through a village whose road sign shows the invaders to be closing in on the French border. Fast-moving foot soldiers like these were part of the new concept of war in which mobile infantry exploited gains made by tanks and aircraft.

[Darrell]

Volume 3 - The Battle Of Britain

RAF fighter pilots at an airdrome in southern England scramble for their airplanes after being alerted to the approach of German attackers. At the height of the Battle of Britain, in August 1940, Britain's overworked pilots flew up to seven sorties a day, and were often on call around the clock in the bone-wearying struggle to fend off the numerically superior Luftwaffe.

[Darrell]

Volume 4 - The Rising Sun

Victorious Japanese soldiers in the Philippines assemble around a mammoth artillery piece, to pose in triumph for a photograph that will be sent back home.

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Volume 5 - The Battle Of The Atlantic

Battered by high seas and a northeasterly gale, two German U-boats on patrol in mid-Atlantic meet unexpectedly in the winter of 1941. The chance encounter surprised both boats, which had been fighting the storm for over a week. Journalist Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, sent on patrol with the U-96 (in foreground), took this picture evoking the perilous life of Germany's seawolves.

[Darrell]

Volume 6 - Russia Besieged

Moving to the front to help defend Moscow in late 1941, a Russian cavalry column wends its way across snow-encrusted fields near the city. In an age of motorized warfare the Red Army's cavalry, more than 200,000 strong, proved invaluable - especially when weather immobilized mechanized vehicles.

[Darrell]

Volume 7 - The War In The Desert

A German panzer crewman, emerging from the turret of his immobilized tank with his hands up, surrenders to bayonet-wielding British infantry soldiers in October 1942, during one of the desert war's most hard-fought and decisive actions, the Battle of El Alamein.

[Joe]

I ordered these from Time-Life in about 1978 -79. They sent one book about every couple months. It was always a good day when I came home & that box was on the mail box. I still have them today.

[Darrell]

Volume 8 - The Home Front: U.S.A.

Women employees at an aviation plant in Long Beach, California, polish lines of transparent noses for A-20 attack bombers. During the War years more than three million women found work in war-related jobs on the home front.

[Darrell]

Volume 9 - China-Burma-India

British soldiers, patrolling in southern Burma in 1945, file across a dike as a Burmese farmer tills a flooded rice paddy with his oxen. Tropical heat, jungles, rivers and rugged mountains combined with torrential rains and hordes of insects, made the China-Burma-India Theater one of World War II's most forbidding arenas.

[Darrell]

Volume 10 - Island Fighting

Under heavy enemy fire U.S. Marines advance inland on Betio Island of the Tarawa Atoll in November 1943. Converted into a bristling fortress by the Japanese, the tiny island - less than half a mile square - was the scene of one of World War II's most violent battles.

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Volume 11 - The Italian Campaign

American infantrymen advance toward the mountain stronghold of Troina as the 38-day campaign in Sicily approaches its climax. The ancient town was the scene of a major battle as the Germans funneled their forces into the northeastern corner of the island in preparation for their withdrawal to the mainland of Italy.