Time: Absolute Victory: America's Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph

By Time-Life Books

In the last, triumphant months of World War II, young Americans won their nations greatest victoryor victories. For the war they won was a world war, a conflict fought on two very different fronts in two very different ways. In Europe, the battle-tested troops who had landed in Normandy on D-Day fought their way onto Adolf Hitlers doorstep, then crossed the Rhine and brought down the Nazis thousand-year Reich. Meanwhile, across the Pacific, sailors, Marines and airmen teamed up to invade a series of crucial islands Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawarolling back a tough Japanese enemy and paving the way for the surprising end of the war with the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima. Every step of every day, these members of The Greatest Generation were shadowed by reporters and photographers from two great American magazines, Time and Life. Now, the editors of Time have returned to these archives to compile a memorable, visually stunning portrait of those stirring times, Americas Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932994734
• ISBN13: 9781932994735
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Time
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.1" x 0.9" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

great book

This book is wonderful for people who love WWII. It has great pictures and wonderful accuracy. This is the best World War Two book with pictures that I have read. If you like WWII, then you should get this book.