World War II (Eyewitness) Paperback – 1 May 2012

Like all Dorling Kindersley books the art direction and design/layout is excellent.

Great book with clear pages, descriptions & pictures.

good

I bought this book as i'm interested in the history of World War II. It's quite a thick book and takes time to get through. But it covers every aspect of the second world war so is worth buying.

A good introduction to the war years in words and images. Probably at least half or more of the book is visual, either photos printed in sepia or green (a few in full colour) dateline bar-charts breaking key events down to days of the month and dozens of nicely produced maps. Actually I think the pages are a little over designed because so many of the photos fade into the text areas but this style is very typical of DK books.The ten chapters cover it all and the Index has well over two thousand entries. The key events are broken down to spread sections. For example: Changing fortunes on the Eastern Front, is over four spreads and gets a date bar chart, comprehensive map, three side-bars (1: Soviet intelligence with two images, 2: The siege of Leningrad with five images, 3: The Soviet home front with four images) plus the text describing the events as they unfolded. I liked all the separate side-bars which pop-up throughout the book pulling out subjects for a more detailed explanation and frequently looking at the technology of war: tanks; planes; guns.I think it's mentioning that this book was first published in 2004 and has had at least three reprints, each with a different cover and there are most likely other versions, too. I have a hardback copy from 2011 and sold really cheaply as remainder stock. If you look around the net you'll see the different versions, look for the three authors and 336 pages as a guide to the version this review applies to.

Tiny text makes this unusable. Very poor from DK. Someone needs to be better at their job.

Like and interesting

An informative and well written book with many good illustrations.