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THE TIMES ATLAS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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The definitive account of the greatest conflict in world history – with hundreds of maps tracing every detail of the war, including the political, economic and strategic backgrounds.

· Clear text and captions explaining every theatre of the war
· Battle maps backed up by a broad range of economic and political maps
· A superb work of reference and dramatic narrative
· Detailed index, chronology and glossary

John Keegan is an acclaimed military history writer of twenty books of which the best-known are A History of Warfare (1993) which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and The First World War (1998) which was awarded the Westminster Medal. He has also been a longstanding contributor and defence editor for the Daily Telegraph.

He was awarded the O.B.E. in the 1991 Gulf War Honours List and was knighted in 1999, for services to military history.