Lyons, Michael J. World War II (0367150972)

Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and logistics. This textbook includes the following features:

• A lively narrative of facts, events, people, and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis
• New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II
• Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context
• Chapters, sections, and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments
• Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II.

Global in focus, by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide, this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century.