WORLD WAR II - TIME-LIFE Books

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Volume 12 - Partisans And Guerrillas

Making good their escape from encirclement by the Axis, exhausted men and women of the Yugloslav Partisans trek through the woods near Miljevina in June 1943, after one of the toughest antiguerrilla campaigns of the war in the Balkans. More than 6,000 Partisans were killed in the four weeks of the German-led offensive.

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Volume 13 - The Second Front

On D-Day - June 6, 1944 - soldiers of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade swarm ashore at Bernieres-sur-Mer, France. This Normandy invasion, the greatest amphibious operation in history, was the opening phase of Operation Overlord, the Allies' master plan for the liberation of German-occupied Europe.

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Volume 14 - Liberation

French gendarmes try to hold back hordes of exuberant Parisians who filled streets, crowded onto tricolored-draped balconies and perched precariously on rooftops as General Charles de Gaulle formally ended four years of German Occupation with a victory parade along the Champs-Elysees on the 26th of August, 1944.

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Volume 15 - Return To The Philippines

Repeating an earlier triumphant gesture, General Douglas MacArthur strides through shin-deep waters to the island of Luzon on January 9, 1945. MacArthur had fought for almost three years to fulfill his pledge to return to the Philippines. His first walk ashore had occurred on Leyte on October 20, 1944.

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Volume 16 - The Air War In Europe

Back from an attack on Berlin, the crewmen of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber head for a debriefing session at their home base in England. The plane's prankish name, painted on it's side. was "Arise My Love and Come with Me".

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Volume 17 - The Resistance

Underground fighters, armed with weapons air-dropped by the Allies, take cover from Herman fire behind a ridge in the Vercors area of Southeastern France in February 1944. At that time, the Resistance movements in the unoccupied countries of Western Europe were building toward a crescendo of activity in anticipation of an Allied invasion.

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Volume 18 - The Battle Of The Bulge

The body of an American soldier killed during the Battle of the Bulge is carried from a snowy Ardennes field by German prisoners. The six-week battle - the biggest in Western Europe during the Second World War - claimed more than 180,000 American and German casualties.

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Volume 19 - The Road To Tokyo

Invading Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a steep beach front of soft volcanic sand in the shadow of Mount Suribachi. The invasion of Iwo, bringing the Americans to within 600 miles of Tokyo, signaled the beginning of final preparations for the invasion of Japan itself.

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Volume 20 - Red Army Resurgent

Wearing winter camouflage, Soviet snipers hunt their Wehrmacht opponents in the ruins of Stalingrad. In August 1942, at the start of the epic battle for the city, the Red Army had barely survived a year of German victories. But when the battle ended in February 1943, the Russians had turned the tide with their first successful strategic offensive of the War.

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Volume 21 - The Nazis

Leader of the fast growing Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler salutes his goose-stepping Brownshirts - part of an enormous crowd of followers who assembled in Brunswick on October 18, 1931, to show off their strength in strife-torn, Depression-weary Germany. Fifteen months later, Hitler climbed to power as Chancellor of the Reich, inaugurating a reign of violence and conquest that lasted 12 years.

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Volume 22 - Across The Rhine

Tanks and jeeps of the U.S. Third Army roll across the Rhine on a pontoon bridge at the town of Boppard on March 27, 1945. By the end of the month seven Allied armies had crossed the mighty river, Germany's last natural barrier on the Western Front, to begin the final assault on Hitler's Third Reich.

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Volume 23 - War Under The Pacific

Scanning the surface through a periscope, an American submarine commander searches for enemy ships in Japanese waters. The enormous toll of Japanese shipping taken by the U.S. submarine service played a crucial role in the war in the Pacific.

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Volume 24 - War In The Outposts

Silhouetted against the late-night sun, a lone U.S. soldier walks guard along a barbed-wired barricade protecting the harbor at Camp Laugarnec, Iceland. Iceland was one of the countless outposts where Allied troops manned support bases or fought bitter campaigns on the fringes of the major combat zones.

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Volume 25 - The Soviet Juggernaut

Advancing through Poland, Soviet infantrymen expand their bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula in September 1944. With the crossing of the river, troops of the Red Army took a giant step in their relentless drive westward, which in two years brought them 1,400 miles from Stalingrad into Germany.

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Volume 26 - Japan At War

Carrying the few possessions they could salvage, homeless Japanese families pick their way through the wreckage of Kobe, fire-bombed by American B-29s in May of 1945, In spite of such hardships, the Japanese at this point were preparing all-out resistance to an expected invasion by the Allies.