A revised and updated edition of this immense bestseller, in a new, even more fitting large-format coffee-table book edition.
The Second World War as you have never read it before. A world first.
Directed by Jean Lopez, with the collaboration of Nicolas Aubin and Vincent Bernard, and superbly presented by data designer Nicolas Guillerat, this exceptional book — remarkable both in form and content — is the fruit of a combination of complementary skills brought together for the first time.
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The starting point is a simple observation: the mass of data available on the Second World War has never been greater, yet it has become increasingly difficult to make sense of it and, above all, to convey it to a wide audience. It was therefore necessary to devise — drawing on a rigorous historical approach and the best international sources — a form capable both of handling the vast quantity of available data and of making it intelligible to the greatest number. That form is infographics, and the result is breathtaking, whether it comes to refreshing our knowledge, visualising the broad outlines of the conflict, easily grasping complex phenomena, or simply connecting aspects of the war that have hitherto remained fragmented.
In four parts — Mobilisations, Production and Resources, Arms and Armies, Battles and Campaigns, Outcomes and Fractures — bringing together some sixty major themes — the oil equation, what is an infantry division?, Operation Barbarossa, Allied logistics in Europe, the American reconquest of the Pacific, the Nazi concentration camp system, the epic of Free France, German losses, the war in the desert… — it is indeed the entire Second World War that is here reimagined through a particularly accessible, profoundly original and no less aesthetic form.
Editorial director of Guerres et histoire, Jean Lopez is the author of several authoritative works on the Eastern Front, including, with Lasha Otkhmezuri, a biography of Zhukov that has received unanimous acclaim. He has also co-edited, with Olivier Wieviorka, Les Mythes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (2 volumes) and published Les cents derniers jours d'Hitler.
A recognised specialist in military history, Vincent Bernard has already published a widely praised biography of General Lee and his great adversary, General Grant.
A holder of the agrégation in history, Nicolas Aubin is a specialist in the Second World War and contributes to numerous military history journals. He is the author of Routes de la liberté. La logistique américaine en France et en Allemagne, 1944-1945.
Trained as a graphic designer, Nicolas Guillerat turned, after a foray into advertising, to data visualisation. He also teaches data design.
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