WORLD WAR II: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The history of WWII from September 1939 to VJ day through the personalaccounts of soldiers, speeches, diaries and official records. The War astold by those who were there. How will the Second World War beremembered? Not as a series of strategic battles but as a dramatic turningpoint in world history, recorded through the personal accounts, diaries,and speeches of those that were there. World War Two: the Autobiography places centre stage the individualaccounts of over 200 people who saw events unfolding before their eyes:from the first stirrings of Nazi aggression, to the phoney war and theBlitzkrieg; from the frozen wastes of the Eastern Front to life under thethreat of the Blitz in London. This autobiography offers a panoramic view of the conflict and withentries from all the major figures of the war, including Churchill, FieldMarshal Montgomery, Hitler, Stalin and Rommel, as well as accounts fromthe men and women on the front line, the home front and those unfortunateto be prisoners of war, from all sides of the conflict.