The Historical Atlas of World War II: 170 Maps That Chart the Most Cataclysmic Event in Human History Paperback – 3 March 2020

Der Atlas ist sehr umfangreich. In manche Karten hätten mehr Informationen gepasst. Es gibt zusätzlich noch 3D ähnliche Karten. Es gibt ein paar Lücken, die in anderen Atlanten dargestellt sind. Während zum Beispiel die Invasion zur See von Norwegen gut dargestellt wird, fehlt die berühmte Jagd auf die Bismarck. Vielleicht nicht das glorreichste Kapitel der Engländer, darf aber nicht fehlen. Der große Atlas zum II Weltkrieg aus dem BECHTERMÜNZ Verlag liefert dagegen alle Karten, allerdings von 1973 und eben nicht so bunt wie die Neuen.

Perfetto.

This arrived promptly too. I was very pleased with this book it is interesting and great for research for my project.

I have found this atlas to be a very useful reference in my readings. While there are a few 1/2 or 1/4 page size maps, the majority of them are full page and in a book of this size they show a good amount of detail of the opposing armies fronts, troop movements and so on.My readings on WWII cover all theaters, and not having more than a basic knowledge of world gepgraphy it was sometimes hard for me to visualize or understand some of these campaigns or battles - having no point of reference to the names of the towns, cities or locations involved. This atlas helps me understand in greater detail the vast scope of the battlegrounds and campaigns in the Pacific, CBI, China, et al - showing the offenses, counter-offensives and helping me grasp a bit of the startegies.I just finished reading David Glantz's excellent "When Titan Clashed" and this atlas proved itself as an invaluable reference tool. Glantz's book is very detailed and this atlas has very good coverage of the German thrust of Operation Barbarossa and the major battles around Leningrad, Kharkov, Kursk and Stalingrad. It was especially usefaul covering the 1943 Soviet Winter Offensive which stretched the width of Russia from the Baltic to the Black Seas. It had overview maps of the entire front plus maps detailing the individual fronts such as the Ukraine, the Caucasus' and northern Russia and around Leningrad and the Karelian Front.I have the hardcover edition and it was worth the few extra $$. It is a huge, heavy sturdy book and the pages are printed on heavy stock paper for durability. The maps are all full colored and the different army groups, armies, divisions and so on involved are labeled with clearly defined arrows showing their movements. It is laid out in chronological order. It begins with the European layout right after WWI and the first 20 or so pages are devoted to the politcal make-up and alliances, the Depression in Germany and the rise of facism and into the invasion of Poland. There are a couple of interesting chapters at the end detailing some statistics of the combatants, such as manpower and troops mobilized, casualties and industrial production.As good as this atlas is it does miss out in not including or naming some of the topograhic and geographic details that were critical to some of the battles and campaigns, particularly the cities and towns and the rivers that needed to be crossed, or sometimes were the goals and end points of some of the offenses.

かつて私は日本で発行されたマップを持っていたがそれはではとても満足できなかったので新たにアメリカ製のマップを買い足した、しかしそのマップは火事で燃えてしまい探していたのだがこのマップは以前のマップに匹敵出来得るマップだ。寝くじくてしっまって首が痛くて本日はこれ以上書けないので詳細は後にくそっ、何時に成ったら治るんだ。これじゃ誤字・脱字ばかりするしかしまぁ編集してもそれを更新させるのの遅い事、遅い事それまで何も出来やしない、これだけ遅いのなら編集なんかさせなければ良いじゃないか、元々、レビューの全チェックなんて不可能な事をやるから悪いんだよ、なら特定の言葉が入っていたら入力不能にしてしまえば良いんだよ。