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    #31
    Volume 27 - The Mediterranean

    Italian warships slice through choppy seas during maneuvers in the Bay of Naples. Mussolini's highly vaunted fleet, reinforced by German submarines and air power, waged a three-year-long struggle with the Allies for control of the strategic Mediterranean Sea.

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      #32
      I have several volumes...I'll post the numbers later. Tom

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        #33
        Volume 28 - Battles For Scandinavia

        On the fringe of a Soviet-occupied forest stronghold in the north of Finland, Finnish ski troopers lie against a snowy hummock with their bayoneted rifles at the ready. Bitter weather and hostile Arctic terrain bedeviled the foreign troops - German, Russian, British and French - who fought with and against the Scandinavians between 1939 and 1945.

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          Volume 29 - The Secret War

          Condemned to death after a month-long trial in July 1942, a handcuffed Nazi saboteur leaves a U.S. military court in the custody of an Army guard. He was one of eight Germans caught while on a secret mission in the United States.

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            Volume 30 - Prisoners Of War

            Guarded by a few GIs, Germans march into captivity past an American mobile antiaircraft unit near Limburg, 20 miles east of the Rhine in central Germany. These prisoners, who were among the 800 taken by the U.S. First Army in March 1945, joined the 500,000 who had already surrendered to Americans that year.

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              Volume 31 - The Commandos

              Tommy guns at the ready, British Commandos take cover on a hill of rubble, the result of RAF bombing, after leading the way into the German city of Wesel in March 1945.

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                Volume 32 - The Home Front: Germany

                Members of the Volkssturm shoulder rifles, antitank grenade launchers and a light machine gun in a parade staged in Berlin during November 1944 to bolster flagging morale. The Volkssturm was a civilian militia recruited from men between 16 and 60 who were not considered fit for regular military duty.

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                  Volume 33 - Italy At War

                  Benito Mussolini teaches the stiff-legged goose step to high-ranking Fascist officers in Rome in January 1938. Obsessed with military trappings and determined to build an empire, Mussolini committed Italy to a "Pact of Steel" with Nazi Germany and in 1940 dragged his country into a war that it was fatally unprepared to fight.


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                    Volume 34 - Bombers Over Japan

                    The snowy flanks of Mount Fuji present a spectacular backdrop to a flight of B-29s forming for a raid on the Japanese homeland in 1945. The highest peak in Japan at 12,389 feet, and less than 15 minutes flying time from Tokyo, Mount Fuji became a regular rendezvous point for American Bombers.

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                      Volume 35 - The Neutrals

                      Time weighs heavily on refugees from Nazi-dominated nations as they pass idle hours at a sidewalk cafe in Lisbon in 1941. the capital of neutral Portugal became an international center of transit - and a symbol of hope and frustration - for thousands of Europeans who were seeking visas and safe passage from their war-torn continent.



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                        Volume 36 - Victory In Europe

                        jubilant Russian soldiers, swarming over two of the tanks that helped them capture Berlin, sail their caps into the air in celebration on May 2, 1945. The monument in the background is a German victory column dedicated in 1873 following the Franco-Prussian War and enlarged and rededicated by Adolf Hitler in 1938.

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                          Volume 37 - The Fall Of Japan

                          Twisted steel, chunks of concrete and charred trees are all that remain of the once-busy shopping district in Hiroshima on the 7th of August, 1945 - the day after the atomic bomb was dropped. The cataclysmic blast, and a similar one three days later at Nagasaki, almost immediately claimed some 200,000 lives and convinced Japanese leaders of the futility of continuing the War.

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                            #43
                            I have the complete set...love mine ! Tom

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                              Volume 38 - The Aftermath: Europe

                              At last the guns has fallen silent, and like millions of Europeans these citizens of Cologne in 1946 resume the daily business of peacetime living in what remains of their beloved city. For most, the routine was simple and harsh: a constant search for warm clothing, shelter and the next meal.

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                                Volume 39 - The Aftermath: Asia

                                In heavy-wheeled carts pulled by bullocks, a train of refugees makes its way under military protection from Pakistan to India in 1947. The refugees were among millions who were uprooted in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, when British India achieved independence - but was split into two nations divided by a chasm of religious hatred.


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