VICTORY IN EUROPE GEB: From D-day to the Destruction of the Third Reich - Tapa dura

This book, published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of VE Day, is a graphic account of the storming and taking of Hitler's Festung Europa ('Fortress Europe') by the Allies during the final eleven months of the Second World War. The book shows spread by spread the relentless progress of the epic war in the European Theatre of Operations, and focuses on the world-famous engagements such as Operation Market-Garden (immortalised in the film A Bridge too Far), the Battle of the Bulge, the bombing of Dresden and other German cities, the fall of Berlin, and VE Day itself. Written by a leading military historian and including a wealth of first-hand accounts on an audio CD, Imperial War Museum's Victory in Europe Experience contains 30 facsimile items of memorabilia integrated into the pages of the book. The reader can re-live this momentous period of history by examining maps, diaries, letters, and other items which up till now have remained filed or exhibited in the Imperial War Museum and other museum collections in Northern Europe.

Julian Thompson is a leading military historian, a Visiting Professor to the Department of War Studies at King's College London, and a distinguished veteran of the Falklands War. He has written several successful books including No Picnic: 3 Commando Brigade in the South Atlantic, The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945, The Royal Marines, and The Imperial War Museum Book of War behind Enemy Lines.