Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.

Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought?and whose outcome was in greater doubt?than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative.

Miller covers the entire war?on land, at sea, and in the air?and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

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Revised and updated by Donald L. Miller, original text by Henry Steele Commager

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Contents

PREFACE

The Nazi Juggernaut
Britain Stands Alone
From the Vistula to the Volga
The Rising Sun
The Hard Way Back
The Dead of Tarawa
Up the Bloody Boot
The Air War
The Great Invasion
From Normandy to Germany
The Battle of the Bulge
The Marianas
A Marine at Peleliu
The Return
The B-29s
Make Them Remember
From the Volga to the Oder
Across the Rhine
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
The Setting Sun
Victory