Classics Illustrated Special Issue #166A - World War II

(1962)

["Come along to the days of the Civil War"] (Table of Contents)

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World War II (Table of Contents)

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Synopsis:

The invasion of Poland and the start of WWII.

The Fuehrer (Table of Contents)

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Adolf Hitler; Joseph Goebbels; Winston Churchill; Benito Mussolini

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Hitler's rise to power.

War on the High Seas (Table of Contents)

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Attacks on naval shipping by German U-Boats.

Il Duce (Table of Contents)

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Benito Mussolini; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

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Benito Mussolini's rise to power and Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.

The Conquest of Western Europe (Table of Contents)

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Adolph Hitler; French Premier Paul Reynaud; General Charles de Gaulle

Synopsis:

Germany invades Northern Europe and France. The Battle of Dunkirk saves over 300,000 soldiers in nine days.

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The Battle of Britain (Table of Contents)

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Winston Churchill; Adolph Hitler; President Franklin Roosevelt

Synopsis:

Germany wages an air war against Britain.

Warships and Wolf Packs (Table of Contents)

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The history of the battleship Bismarck and the use of packs of U-Boats to sink Allied shipping.

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The Resistance (Table of Contents)

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Danish resistance fighters attack a factory making parts for German rockets.

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The Eastern Front (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

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Characters:

Benito Mussolini; Adolph Hitler; Joseph Stalin

Synopsis:

Italy invades Greece with Germany helping. Then Germany invades Russia but is stopped on the outskirts of Moscow by the Russian winter.

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The Big Three (Table of Contents)

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Winston Churchill; Franklin Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin

Synopsis:

Short biographies of the three leaders of the Allies.

War in the Pacific (Table of Contents)

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General Hideki Tojo; President Franklin Roosevelt; Major James Devereux; General Douglas MacArthur; Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright

Synopsis:

Japan attacks China. They then attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into the war. General MacArthur leaves the Philippines, vowing to return, while the soldiers captured there are forced on the Bataan death march.

The Doolittle Raid (Table of Contents)

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Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle

Synopsis:

The story of the famous Doolittle raid on the Japanese homeland.

The Coral Sea and Midway (Table of Contents)

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The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.

Guadalcanal (Table of Contents)

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The battle of Guadalcanal.

Tarawa (Table of Contents)

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The battle for the island Tarawa.

War Leaders (Table of Contents)

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General Douglas MacArthur; Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; Admiral William F. Halsey

Synopsis:

Short biographies of the three main commanders in the South Pacific.

Stalingrad (Table of Contents)

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General Friedrich von Paulus; Adolph Hitler; General Georgi Zhukov

Synopsis:

The battle for Stalingrad.

War Leaders (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

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Characters:

Sir Alan Brooke; Karl Doenitz; General Georgi Zhukov

Lidice and Warsaw (Table of Contents)

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The Nazi atrocities of Lidice and the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Death Camps (Table of Contents)

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Adolph Hitler; Martin Niemoeller

Synopsis:

The Nazi atrocities of the concentration camps.

North Africa (Table of Contents)

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General Bernard Montgomery; Winston Churchill; General Erwin Rommel; Field Marshall Hermann Goering; Adolph Hitler

Synopsis:

The defeat of Germany and Italy in North Africa.

War Leaders (Table of Contents)

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Field Marshal Harold Alexander; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; General Mark W. Clark

Synopsis:

Short biographies of these three leaders.

The Italian Campaign (Table of Contents)

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Adolph Hitler; Benito Mussolini; King Victor Emmanuel III; Marshal Pietro Badoglio; General Mark Clark

Synopsis:

The battle of Sicily and Italy.

Blockbusters and Buzz Bombs (Table of Contents)

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Details on the bombing of Germany with block-buster bombs and Germany's use of Buzz-Bombs on England.

The Normandy Invasion (Table of Contents)

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General Dwight Eisenhower

Synopsis:

The D-Day invasion.

The Battle of the Bulge (Table of Contents)

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Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt; General Anthony McAuliffe; Lieutenant-General George Patton

Synopsis:

The Battle of the Bulge is detailed.

Victory in Europe (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

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Characters:

Adolph Hitler; General Dwight Eisenhower; Field Marshal Harold Alexander; Benito Mussolini; Admiral Doenitz

Synopsis:

The final invasion of Germany, including the taking of the Remagen bridge and the deaths of both Mussolini and Hitler.

War Leaders (Table of Contents)

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General Dwight Eisenhower; Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery; General Omar Bradley

Synopsis:

Brief biographies of three war leaders.

Leyte Gulf (Table of Contents)

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Admiral William Halsey; Read Admiral Jesse Oldendorf

Synopsis:

The Allies return to the Philippines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and destroy most of the remaining Japanese navy.

The Mainland War (Table of Contents)

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The Burma Road and other supply routes for the Allies. The Flying Tigers continue their missions against the Japanese.

War Leaders (Table of Contents)

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Admiral Louis Mountbatten; Premier Hideki Tojo; Admiral Chester Nimitz

Synopsis:

Short biographies of three war leaders.

Iwo Jima and Okinawa (Table of Contents)

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The taking of the islands Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Victory in the Pacific (Table of Contents)

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General Douglas MacArthur; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; President Harry Truman

Synopsis:

Kamikaze pilots are used against the American fleet. Atomic weapons are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and finally bring an end to WWII.

Crimes Against Humanity (Table of Contents)

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Premier Hideki Tojo; Hermann Goering

Synopsis:

The first war crimes trials are held at the end of World War II.

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