World War II: The Illustrated Story of the Second World War

By John M. Burns

Book Overview

World War II chronicles the global conflict through a comic-strip retelling of major events, leaders, and turning points, highlighting its scale, human cost, and lasting impact.

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, Classic Comic Store's special issue of Classics Illustrated, World War II, tells the astonishing and horrifying story of the Second World War in comic-strip format. Classics Illustrated traces the chronology of the most costly war in human history from its outbreak to its conclusion, with over 60 million dead, trials for crimes against humanity and a new, terrifying threat over the world: the atomic bomb The book contains 100 pages - 96 of Classics Illustrated's famous comic-strip re-telling and 4 more pages dedicated to exploring the war further, with fascinating facts, pictures, discussion questions and more. All major events in the war are covered, including the coming to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Stalingrad and many more. The book also has biographies of several major war leaders, from Winston Churchill to Erwin Rommel, Dwight D. Eisenhower to Hideki Tojo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906814791
• ISBN13: 9781906814793
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Classics Illustrated Comics
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 11 years and under