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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about with the genre: Arts & Photography, Photography & Video?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'World War II in Photographs'
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conversations.value: World War II in Photographs
  The Wehrmacht enters Warsaw via one of the city's bridges, 28 September 1939. The Polish campaign had lasted just four weeks, although it had cost the Germans around 50,000 casualties, including 15,000 dead.
  Street in Warsaw, October 1939, showing the devastation left in the wake of the German invasion. Scenes like this would become common around the world for the next six years.
  Russian troops occupy eastern Poland, in accordance with secret protocols contained within the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
  The Red Army, unlike the Wehrmacht, had not modernised especially well, particularly in the area of tactics, and this became apparent in November 1939. Flushed with success in Poland, Stalin decided that the time was right for a little empire-building of his own. In November 1939 the Soviet Union attacked its neighbour to the west, Finland. The Finns exploited the tactical ineptness of the Soviets to score some spectacular victories, particularly at Suomussalmi, but they could not follow them up, and the Red Army was able to regroup. By March 1940 the so-called Winter War was over, leaving the Russians with substantial territorial gains, and the Finns looking for an alliance with Nazi Germany.
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conversations.value: World War II in Photographs
  The Wehrmacht enters Warsaw via one of the city's bridges, 28 September 1939. The Polish campaign had lasted just four weeks, although it had cost the Germans around 50,000 casualties, including 15,000 dead.
  Street in Warsaw, October 1939, showing the devastation left in the wake of the German invasion. Scenes like this would become common around the world for the next six years.
  Russian troops occupy eastern Poland, in accordance with secret protocols contained within the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
  The Red Army, unlike the Wehrmacht, had not modernised especially well, particularly in the area of tactics, and this became apparent in November 1939. Flushed with success in Poland, Stalin decided that the time was right for a little empire-building of his own. In November 1939 the Soviet Union attacked its neighbour to the west, Finland. The Finns exploited the tactical ineptness of the Soviets to score some spectacular victories, particularly at Suomussalmi, but they could not follow them up, and the Red Army was able to regroup.
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conversations.value: The strategy for bombing the German homeland began in confusion, with no one very sure of which targets they should be aiming at. This, coupled with ineffective bombers and poor navigational abilities led to a very limited success in the initial stages of the bombing campaign. The campaign was suspended in November 1941 after 37 aircraft were lost in one night over Germany. In February 1942, Arthur 'Bomber' Harris was appointed as Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command. Harris realised that the key to success was to increase the number of bombers on missions, swamping the German air defences and outnumbering the night fighters. With the limited accuracy of the bombers in mind, Harris issued his Area Bombing Directive of 14 February 1942, designating German cities as targets. This move was to change the whole bombing strategy. Bomber production doubled between 1940 and 1942, and the amount of bombs dropped by the RAF increased from 13,000 tonnes to 45,000 tonnes over the same period.
  On 30 May 1942, the first 1,000-bomber raid was launched on Cologne, possibly in retaliation for the 1940 German raid on Coventry. It left the city devastated; only the cathedral in the centre was left standing.
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conversations.value: The fighting for the Philippines, like that for the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, was bitter, with elements of the Japanese Army holding out until after the Japanese surrender. Manila on Luzon finally fell on 3 March. Iwo Jima and Okinawa fell between February and June 1945, but Japanese troops held out with such suicidal dedi cation that the Americans were reluctant to commit themselves to a full invasion of the Japanese mainland, reckoning on 35 per cent casualties as on Okinawa – an amount equal to the entire war dead and wounded of the US to that date. It was with these statistics in mind that Harry Truman, President since the death of Franklin Roosevelt on 12 April, sanctioned use of the atom bomb. On 6 August the first bomb, 'Little Boy', was dropped on Hiroshima, followed by the second, 'Fat Man' on Nagasaki on 9 August. The casualty total of these two 'super-weapons' was around 100,000. On 14 August, Emperor Hirohito addressed the Japanese nation on the radio, urging them to accept not 'surrender', which he avoided mentioning, but the 'coming of peace'. On 2 September, witnessed by representatives from the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, France, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the delegation from Japan signed the peace treaty and ended the most destructive war in human history.
  Sherman tank with supporting infantry moves into action on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, November 1943.
  Marines await the result of an explosive charge tossed into a Japanese cave position, Okinawa, April 1945.
  Major General William Slim, whose Fourteenth 'the forgotten' Army drove the Japanese out of Burma, in conversation with Air Marshal Vincent and General Chambers at Government House in Rangoon, August 1945.