Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II, 3rd Edition written by Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D. and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Idiots Guide® to World War II, Second Edition, will feature updated and expanded coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It will include details about major battles on land, in the air, and on the sea-starting with Hitler's rise to power and his goal of European conquest; to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor; to the decisive battles such as D-Day and the Battle of the Midway, which turned they tides of the war toward the Allies.