DK INDIA
Senior Editor Rupa Rao
Assistant Editors Aashirwad Jain,
Sonali Jindal
Picture Researchers Akash Jain,
Surya Sankash Sarangi
Picture Research Manager
Taiyaba Khatoon
Jackets Editorial Coordinator
Priyanka Sharma
Managing Editor Rohan Sinha
Managing Jackets Editor Saloni Singh
Pre-production Manager Balwant Singh
Cartographers Ashutosh Ranjan Bharti,
Swati Handoo, Animesh Kumar Pathak
Cartography Manager Suresh Kumar
Lead Senior Art Editor Vaibhav Rastogi
Senior Art Editor Mahua Mandal
Project Art Editors Sanjay Chauhan,
Anjali Sachar
Art Editors Rabia Ahmad, Mridushmita Bose,
Debjyoti Mukherjee, Sonali Rawat Sharma
Managing Art Editor Sudakshina Basu
Senior Jackets Designer Suhita Dharamjit
Senior DTP Designers Harish Aggarwal,
Vishal Bhatia, Jagtar Singh
Production Manager Pankaj Sharma
104 America and Japan go to war
106 Japanese ambitions
108 Japan goes to war
110 Pearl Harbor
112 Japanese advances
114 America at war
116 Japan invades the Philippines
118 Surrender at Singapore
120 Japan takes Burma
122 India in World War II
124 Japanese setbacks
126 The Battle of Midway
128 Guadalcanal
130 War in Europe and Africa
102
132 The new order in Europe
134 The Holocaust
136 The Warsaw ghetto
138 Raids and subversions
140 Arctic convoys
142 Rommel’s final advance
144 Second Battle of El Alamein
146 Operation Torch
148 German advance
to Stalingrad
150 Stalingrad under siege
152 Soviet victory at Stalingrad
154 Prisoners of war
THE WIDENING WAR 1942
76 Rommel enters the
desert war
78 The Greco-Italian War
80 Germany pushes south
82 The Middle East
and eastern Mediterranean
84 War in the Mediterranean
86 The Siege of Malta
88 Germany’s war with
the USSR
90 Operation Barbarossa
92 Germany and USSR
at home
94 The Siege of Leningrad
96 German advance
on Moscow
98 Massacres in the east
100 The relief of Moscow
COBALT ID
Designer
Art Director
Editorial Director
Darren Bland
Paul Reid
Marek Walisiewicz
FOREWORD
Peter Snow CBE
CONSULTANT
Richard Overy, Professor of History,
Exeter University
WRITERS
Simon Adams, Tony Allan, Kay Celtel,
R.G. Grant, Jeremy Harwood, Philip Parker,
Christopher Westhorp
CONTRIBUTORS
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