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World War II involved the fighting forces and civilian populations of every continent on the globe, The Illustrated London News, had been chronicling international events for almost a hundred years before Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939. The World At War covers those momentous years with an immediacy that a mere written record cannot supply. Taking both pictures and comments as they were first set down over fifty years ago. Includes more than 750 incredible black and white photographs. Follows events week by week as they unfolded, from German attack on Danzig in 1939, to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.