The War Against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and Adjacent Areas; The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas; The War Against Japan (United States Army in World War II: Pictorial Record Volumes 1, 2, and 3)

xii, 465; xii, 448; ix, 471 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, maps on endpapers. Includes 25 maps, 1629 illustrations, glossaries, and indices. "In the narrative volumes of the United States Army in World War II series, it is possible to include only a limited number of the thousands of pictures taken by photographers of the U.S. armed forces. The Pictorial Record, a subseries of three volumes, has therefore been compiled to show in greater detail the conditions under which the combat forces lived, the methods by which they were trained, the weapons they and their opponents used, the terrain over which they fought, and the support they received from the technical branches of the U.S. Army, the U.S. Army Air Forces, and the U.S. Navy. Two volumes of the subseries deal with the war against the European Axis and the third covers the war in the Pacific and in the China-Burma-India Theater. Each volume is arranged in sections that follow the course of the war chronologically; the written text has been kept to a minimum, each section having a brief introduction recounting the major events covered therein. The three volumes together give a comprehensive pictorial survey of the U.S. Army's operations in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Far East, and the Pacific." (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, p. 147).