The Second World War

This book is about the 20th Century's most dramatic and brutal drama. Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito against Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin; Dunkerque and Pearl Harbour, El Alamein and Stalingrad, Normandy and Iwo Jima. Ottosen puts it all into perspective, all the time explaining what role Norway played in the bigger picture.

An overall review of the background and course of the Second World War written for the general reader and fully illustrated with maps and photographs.

First published: 2000, Aschehoug Non-Fiction

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