World War II series

''World War II'' is a series of books published by Time-Life that chronicles the Second World War. Each book focused on a different topic, such as the resistance, spies, the home front but mainly the battles and campaigns of the conflict. They are each 208 pages in length, heavily illustrated and with pictorial essays on specific topics within the volume. They had no dustwrapper and the cover image was wrap around. There was no title on the front cover; this was printed on the spine. There are 39 volumes in the series: {, class="wikitable sortable" border="1" ! Title !! General Consultant !! Volume !! Year published !! ISBN , - , ''Prelude to War'' , Robert T. Elson , , 1 , , 1976 , , , - , ''Blitzkrieg'' , Robert Wernick , , 2 , , 1977 , , , - , ''Battle of Britain'' , Leonard Mosley , , 3 , , 1977 , , , - , ''The Rising Sun'' , Arthur Zich , , 4 , , 1977 , , , - , ''The Battle of the Atlantic'' , Barrie Pitt , , 5 , , 1980 , , , - , ''Russia Besieged'' ,

Nicholas Bethell Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell (19 July 1938 – 8 September 2007) was a British politician. He was a historian of Central and Eastern Europe. He was also a translator and human rights activist. He sat in the House of Lords as a C ...

, , 6 , , 1980 , , , - , ''The War in the Desert'' , Richard Collier , , 7 , , 1977 , , , - , ''The Home Front: USA'' , Ronald H. Bailey , , 8 , , 1978 , , , - , ''China - Burma - India'' , Don Moser , , 9 , , 1978 , , , - , ''Island Fighting'' , Rafael Steinberg , , 10 , , 1978 , , , - , ''The Italian Campaign'' , Robert Wallace , , 11 , , 1981 , , , - , ''Partisans and Guerrillas'' , Ronald H.Bailey , , 12 , , 1978 , , , - , ''The Second Front'' ,

Douglas Botting Douglas Scott Botting (22 February 1934 – 6 February 2018) was an English explorer, author, biographer and TV presenter and producer. He wrote biographies of naturalists Gavin Maxwell and Gerald Durrell (the former also being a personal frien ...

, , 13 , , 1978 , , , - , ''Liberation'' ,

Martin Blumenson Martin Blumenson (November 8, 1918 – April 15, 2005) was an American military historian who served as a historical officer with the Third and Seventh Armies in World War II and later became a prolific author. His works included a biography of ...

, , 14 , , 1978 , , , - , ''Return to the Philippines'' , Rafael Steinberg , , 15 , , 1979 , , , - , ''Air War in Europe'' , Ronald H. Bailey , , 16 , , 1981 , , , - , ''The Resistance'' ,

Russell Miller Russell Miller (born 1938) is a British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard. While under contract to ''The Sunday Times Magazine'' he won four press awar ...

, , 17 , , 1979 , , , - , ''The Battle of the Bulge'' , William K.Goolrick, Ogden Tanner , , 18 , , 1979 , , , - , ''The Road to Tokyo'' , Keith Wheeler , , 19 , , 1979 , , , - , ''Red Army Resurgent'' , John Shaw , , 20 , , 1979 , , , - , ''The Nazis'' , Robert Edwin Herzstein , , 21 , , 1980 , , , - , ''Across the Rhine'' , Franklin M. Davis Jr. , , 22 , , 1980 , , , - , ''War Under the Pacific'' , Keith Wheeler, , 23 , , 1980 , , , - , ''War in the Outposts'' , Simon Rigge , , 24 , , 1980 , , , - , ''The Soviet Juggernaut'' , Earl F. Ziemke , , 25 , , 1980 , , , - , ''Japan At War'' , John R. Elting, H. Carrol Parrish, Koichi Kawana , , 26 , , 1980 , , , - , ''The Mediterranean'' , A.B.C Whipple , , 27 , , 1981 , , , - , ''Battles for Scandinavia'' , John R. Elting , , 28 , , 1981 , , , - , ''The Secret War'' , Francis Russell , , 29 , , 1981 , , , - , ''Prisoners of War'' , Ronald H. Bailey , , 30 , , 1981 , , , - , ''The Commandos'' ,

, , 31 , , 1981 , , , - , ''The Home Front: Germany'' ,

Charles Whiting Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 – 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ia ...

, , 32 , , 1982 , , , - , ''Italy at War'' ,

Henry Adams Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Fr ...

, , 33 , , 1982 , , , - , ''Bombers Over Japan'' , Keith Wheeler , , 34 , , 1982 , , , - , ''The Neutrals'' , Denis J. Fodor, , 35 , , 1982 , , , - , ''Victory in Europe'' , Gerald Simons , , 36 , , 1982 , , , - , ''Fall of Japan'' , Keith Wheeler , , 37 , , 1983 , , , - , ''The Aftermath: Europe'' ,

, , 38 , , 1983 , , , - , ''The Aftermath: Asia'' , Charles Osborne , , 39 , , 1983 , , {{ISBN, 0-8094-3435-0 Series of history books about World War II Time Life book series Book series introduced in 1976