The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Second World War

As Martin Folly, Senior Lecturer at the School of International Studies, Brunel University, explains in his short Preface this compact atlas “is designed to give a concise but rounded history of the war … It is not intended to give detailed diagrams of military engagements, … but to provide an integrated geopolitical and strategic overview. The aim is to provide students and the general reader with a basic visual aid for understanding the course of events during the Second World War” (p. ix). A total of 51 sets of maps are provided arranged in a roughly chronological order. Each is...