"Describes more than fifty of the most significant battles of the war, provides concise accounts of each battle and its impact on the war, and includes information on location, objective, leaders, casualties and outcome."--Amazon.com.

Originally published: London : Arms and Armour Press, 1989. Includes maps of: Key to Battles - Global; Key to Battles - Europe; Aachen; el Alamein; Anzio; Ardennes; Arnhem; Arras; Battle of the Atlantic; Barbarossa; Bataan and Corregidor; Battle of Britain; Beda Fomm; Belfort; Berlin; Bismarck [North Atlantic]; Blitz on Britain; Caen; Cassino; Crete; Crimea and Sevastopol; D-Day; Dunkirk; Eben Emael; Sicily; Battle of Gazala; Guadalcanal; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Kasserine and the Mareth Line; Kiev; Kohima and Imphal; Kursk; Siege of Leningrad; Leyte Gulf; Malta; Manchuria; Mandalay and Meiktila; Battle of Midway; Moscow; Narvik; Okinawa; Pearl Harbor; Ploesti and Peenemunde; Remagen and the Rhine Crossing; Battle of the River Platte; St. Lo and the Falaise Gap; Salerno; Sedan; Sidi Barrani; Singapore; Stalingrad; Tobruk; Warsaw. Includes index.

Aachen --Alamein (1st and 2nd) -- Anzio -- Ardennes -- Arnhem -- Arras -- Atlantic -- Barbarossa -- Bataan and Corregidor -- Battle of Britain -- Beda Fomm -- Belfort -- Berlin -- Bismarck -- Blitz -- Caen -- Cassino -- Crete -- Crimea and Sevastopol -- D-Day -- Dunkirk -- Eben Emael -- Etna (and the invasion of Sicily) -- Gazala -- Guadalcanal -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Kasserine and the Mareth Line -- Kiev -- Kohima-Imphal -- Kursk -- Leningrad -- Leyte Gulf -- Malta -- Manchuria -- Mandalay-Meiktila -- Midway -- Moscow -- Narvik -- Okinawa -- Pearl Harbor -- Ploesti and Peenemunde -- Remagen and the Rhine Crossings -- Repulse and Prince of Wales -- River Plate -- St-Lô and Falaise -- Salerno -- Sedan -- Sidi Barrani -- Singapore -- Stalingrad -- Tobruk -- Warsaw.