World War II in Numbers : : an Infographic Guide to the Conflict, its Conduct, and its Casualties

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Preparation For War -- Populations and Powers -- Military Strengths of the Allies -- Military Strengths of the Axis -- Fleets of Major World Powers -- Soviet Forces in Europe -- Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War -- Building the US Army -- Lend-Lease--Munitions Production of the Main Powers -- Operation Bolero -- Waffen SS: Foreign Volunteers and Conscripts -- Land Campaigns -- The Invasion of Poland -- The Battle of France -- Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo -- The Battle of Crete -- The Conquest of Malaya -- Operation Barborossa -- Hitler's Allies on the Eastern Front -- Tank Strengths: Western Desert -- The Second Battle of El Alamein -- Stalingrad: The Doomed 6th Army -- The Invasion of Italy -- Monte Cassino: Polish War Crosses -- The Battle of Kursk:Operation Citadel -- The Raid on Dieppe -- Normandy: Balance of Forces -- D-Day: Casualties and Strong Points -- The Polish Home Army -- Operation Market Garden -- The Battle of the Bulge -- The Battle of Kohima -- Island-Hopping in the Pacific -- Top Ten Costliest Battles in the Two World Wars -- Weapons and Innovations -- Aircraft in the Battle of Britain -- Allied and Axis Rifles -- Hitler's Battleships -- Panzers -- Artillery -- Special Operations Executive -- Hobart's Funnies -- Panzerfaust -- Anti-tank Guns -- The V-1 Flying Bomb -- Carrier Fighter Aircraft in the Pacific War -- Allied Landing Croft -- German Operational Jet Aircraft -- Kamikaze -- "Fat Man" and "Little Boy": Atomic Bombs -- In the Air -- The Bottle of Britain -- The Blitz -- The Doolittle Raid -- The Bombing of Malta -- The Bombing of Germany -- US Bombing of Japanese Mainland -- Top Five Air Aces in the Two World Wars -- At Sea -- Mers-el-Kebir -- The Battle of Taranto -- Pearl Harbor -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Convoy PQ17:Losses -- Submarine Losses -- The Battle of Midway -- Hunting the Bismarck -- Costs -- Prisoners of War -- Battle Wounds and Sickness -- : Casualties -- The Volkssturm -- The Polish Ghettos -- The Holocaust.
"A different way to understand the magnitude of World War II. " Countless books exist about the Second World War and in those can be found all of the statistics to be had: numbers killed, bombs dropped, battles won and lost, ad infinitum. But to see these numbers as infographics gives the reader a fresh perspective on the war. "World War II in Numbers" uses color graphics and succinct text to tell the key stories of the battles that engulfed the globe and affected virtually everyone alive during the 1940s. To see the war set out in numbers tells the story with a new certainty: how the Polish Home Army carried out more than 700,000 acts of sabotage the large number of Japanese lost in the Pacific War how Allied tanks stood up to the armor-piercing power of the Panzerfaust the damage the Kamikaze inflicted on Allied ships during the Okinawa Campaign the number of unexploded bombs reported on the island of Malta that in 1944 alone 914,637 tons of bombs were dropped on German cities by how much the Allied forces outnumbered the Germans in Normandy how the ten costliest land battles in WWII compare with those of WWI.

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Inaccurate and unreliable submitted by GJBarnett2 on April 14, 2014, 2:20pm Great idea, poor execution. Found many mistakes of fact, not opinion, that would have been obvious to an editor with even a rudimentary familiarity with the subject. E.g. in a section titled "Hitler's Batleships" there was no mention of the pre-Dreadnaught "Pommern" which fired the fired the first shots of WWII. Similarly, referred to all 7 post-WWI "battleships" as panzerschiffe (armored ships) which was what they called the 3 "pocket battleships." Failed to mention the name -change from Deutschland to Lutzow; Claimed the guns on German battleships were "as big as any" but the largest were 15" and some American, British and Japanese battleships had guns of 16" to 18". On another page, the caliber of the Russian M1938 Mosin-Nagant carbine was listed as 6.5mm Arisaka, a Japanese cartridge rather than the 7.62x52R it was actually chambered for.
I'm sure the vast majority of the data in this book is at least reasonably accurate ... but which? And how do you tell if you're using this book as the source? Since these and other errors were noted on a quick leaf-through, there must be many more inaccuracies, too many to allow this to be a reliable reference.