The Definitive Pictorial Chronicle of World War II charts the greatest event in human history, from the pre-war tensions to the final reckoning; a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 60 million people and defined the political and social landscape of our modern world. Contemporary news reports and over 1500 extraordinary photographs from one of the world’s greatest archives, that of The Daily Mail, evoke the epic scale of the combat.

Pictures tell stories from the theaters of war and battlefields as well as from civilian life, presenting astonishing insight into life during the world’s most devastating military conflict.

This is the definitive photographic chronicle of World War II.