Provides an accessible introduction to 28 of the most important actions of World War II, including Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, Pearl Harbour, El Alamein, the siege of Leningrad, Kursk, Monte Cassino, the D-Day landings, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, the Battle for Berlin and many, many more Includes full-colour tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp at a glance the decisive moves of the battle. Features more than 250 colour and black-and-white photographs and artworks illustrating the soldiers, uniforms and military technology of the era and a 30-minute DVD showing the 10 key moments of World War II!