Provides an accessible introduction to 28 of the most important actions of World War II, including Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, El Alamein, the siege of Leningrad, Kursk, Monte Cassino, the D-Day landings, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, the Battle of Berlin, and many, many more. Includes full-color tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp at a glance the decisive moves of the battle.