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The battlefield of the Second World War
The Second World War was one of the first conflicts to be extensively and meticulously documented by both soldiers and journalists, leaving us with many iconic photographs of the fighting and battlefields. But what do these battlefields look like now, after the extensive reconstruction of the post-war era?
The book contains 160 captivating photographs that provide a unique perspective on both famous and lesser-known battlefields of the Second World War – showing what they looked like during the height of the conflict and what they look like today.
The battlefields featured include places like the Gliwice radio tower, where German saboteurs faked an act of sabotage in September 1939 to justify the German invasion of Poland; the City of London, which was the target of devastating aerial bombing by the Luftwaffe in late 1940; Prokhorovka in Russia, where perhaps the most famous tank battle in history took place during the Kursk offensive in July 1943; the idyllic Tarawa Atoll, the scene of bloody fighting between the Japanese and US Marines in November 1943; and Juno Beach in Normandy, where Canadian troops landed and the deadliest fighting of D-Day occurred.
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