Victory in Europe : From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945
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Author: Thompson, Julian
Europe
Published on 3 April 2025 by Headline Publishing Group (Welbeck) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 160 pages
291 x 254 x 19 | 1022g
Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.
From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied armies in north-west Europe under the supreme command of Eisenhower fought a gruelling series of battles against Axis forces hardened by years of war and desperate to defend their homeland from destruction.
Written by a leading military historian, Julian Thompson, Victory in Europe contains 30 facsimile items of Second World War reproduced throughout the book. Re-live this momentous period of history through maps, diaries, letters, sketches, secret memos and reports, posters and labels all sourced from the archives of the Imperial War Museums.