Describes the war in the Pacific, including key naval battles, the "island hopping" campaign, home front activities, the effects of the war, and the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tells of Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 which started World War II, explains war strategies of Axis and Allied powers, the air war, and the Holocaust.
Photographs and text describe the fighting between the Americans and Vietcong in the jungles of southeast Asia, how television brought graphic war footage to American homes, and the peace protests that took place around the country.
