The Times Atlas of the Second World War

by John Keegan (Editor)

Hundreds of color maps and photographs cover every campaign of World War II in every theater, accompanied by a chronology of events, an encyclopedic glossary, and an analysis of the war's social, political, and economic contexts

Genres: History, World War II, Military History, Reference, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, War

254 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan, OBE, FRSL was a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. He published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare as well as the psychology of battle.

Reviews

[Dropbear123 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5

It's fine. The maps and pictures are decent considering it came out in 1989. Most of the content - maps and text - is focused on the army movements so it is fairly dry. Lots of x army moved to y area and maps with arrows and squares showing offensives. Apart from that there are some global political maps and economic maps of the major powers. The beginning of the book has a pretty thorough timeline for each continent and the end of the book has a detailed glossary of people and other topics which I didn't read through.

Overall, if you can find a cheap copy it might be worth getting but it is not worth seeking out and there are probably newer WWII atlases which might be better.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reference, use it a lot while researching or reading WWII related material.