A Collection of World War II Documents (Illustrated Edition‪)‬

*Illustrated with pictures of leaders, generals, and Pearl Harbor

*Includes an Original Introduction

*Includes Table of Contents

*Includes the following documents:

The Munich Pact

Germany's Invasion of Poland

The Allies Response to the invasion

Pearl Harbor Documents

German Declaration of War against the United States

Armistice with Italy

Yalta Conference

Germany's surrender to the Allies


On September 1, 1939, the world was changed forever. Despite several attempts by the French and British to appease Hitler’s Nazi regime to avoid war, most notably allowing Hitler to annex the Czech’s Sudetenland, Germany invaded Poland on that day, officially starting the deadliest conflict in human history.  

For the French and British, the Nazi invasion of Poland promised war, and by September 3 both countries declared war on Germany. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, fresh off a nonaggression pact with Hitler, invaded the Baltic. France and the United Kingdom, treating the Soviet attack on Finland as tantamount to entering the war on the side of the Germans, responded to the Soviet invasion by supporting the USSR's expulsion from the League of Nations.

Britain and France also began a naval blockade of Germany on September 3 which aimed to damage the country's economy and war effort, but the Nazis would blitzkrieg across the continent over the next year and eventually overwhelm France in mid-1940, leaving the British to fight alone. For the first two years of the war, it looked as though the Axis powers may very well win the war and usher in a new world order. 

This collection of World War II documents spans the Allies’ attempt to appease Hitler at Munich, the German invasion of Poland and the Allies’ response, Pearl Harbor, the Yalta Conference, the armistice with Italy, and finally Germany’s surrender to the Allies. It includes pictures of the war’s important leaders and generals, as well as a Table of Contents.