Time: Absolute Victory

by Editors of Time Magazine

• ISBN13: 9781932994735
• ISBN10: 1932994734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-06
• Publisher: Time Home Entertainment, Inc

Summary

In the last, triumphant months of World War II, young Americans won their nations greatest victoryor victories. For the war they won was a world war, a conflict fought on two very different fronts in two very different ways. In Europe, the battle-tested troops who had landed in Normandy on D-Day fought their way onto Adolf Hitlers doorstep, then crossed the Rhine and brought down the Nazis thousand-year Reich. Meanwhile, across the Pacific, sailors, Marines and airmen teamed up to invade a series of crucial islands Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawarolling back a tough Japanese enemy and paving the way for the surprising end of the war with the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima. Every step of every day, these members of The Greatest Generation were shadowed by reporters and photographers from two great American magazines, Time and Life. Now, the editors of Time have returned to these archives to compile a memorable, visually stunning portrait of those stirring times, Americas Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph.

Table of Contents

Growing Up in Uniform	vi
To Victory in Europe
The War in Review: European Theater	4	(8)
Situation Report: September 1944	12	(2)
The View from the Top	14	(2)
Eight Bridges to Nowhere	16	(6)
A Soldier's Life: Behind the Scenes	22	(4)
Twilight of the Reich	26	(2)
Knocking on Hitler's Door	28	(6)
Winged Victory	34	(6)
War in the Mountains	40	(4)
A Soldier's Life: The Bare Necessities	44	(4)
Secret Sharers	48	(2)
Profile: Destroy the Enemy	50	(2)
Showdown in the Snow	52	(12)
A Soldier's Life: At Ease	64	(4)
Endgame in the East	68	(2)
Profile: A Dragoon's Journey	70	(2)
In War, Visions of Peace	72	(2)
An Untimely Departure	74	(4)
America at War: The Home Front	78	(4)
Across the Roer River	82	(4)
A Photographer's Eye: William Vandivert	86	(2)
A Soldier's Life: Prisoners of War	88	(4)
Lifeline on the Rhine	92	(4)
A Photographer's Eye: Robert Capa	96	(2)
Profile: The Star Halfback	98	(2)
Tightening the Noose	100	(4)
Heart of Darkness	104	(6)
A Soldier's Life: A Time to Pray	110	(2)
Berlin Armageddon	112	(4)
Witness in the Bunker	116	(6)
In the Ruins of the Reich	122	(4)
Cheers and Tears	126	(6)
To Victory in the Pacific
The War in Review: Pacific Theater	132	(8)
Situation Report: July 1944	140	(2)
``I Have Returned''	142	(6)
Profile: Promise Fulfilled	148	(2)
A Soldier's Life: The Perils of Paradise	150	(6)
Wings Across the Water	156	(6)
A Sailor's Life: Flattops and Flyboys	162	(4)
Death's Divine Wind	166	(4)
A Sailor's Life: Shipmates	170	(4)
Beneath the Waves, a Silent Service	174	(2)
Profile: A Question of Balance	176	(2)
Off the Beaten Path	178	(6)
Profile: A Crisis in China	184	(2)
A Soldier's Life: Off Duty	186	(4)
Mission to Manila	190	(6)
A Photographer's Eye: Carl Mydans	196	(4)
A Soldier's Life: Prisoners of Japan	200	(4)
The Ghosts of Bataan	204	(2)
A Soldier's Life: A Higher Power	206	(2)
Duel on Sulphur Island	208	(8)
A Photographer's Eye: Joe Rosenthal	216	(2)
America at War: Facing the Rising Sun	218	(4)
Embracing Death	222	(4)
A Soldier's Life: The Healing Touch	226	(4)
Secrets in the Desert	230	(4)
``Expect a Rain of Ruin''	234	(6)
Reluctant Surrender	240	(4)
Victory's Sweet Song	244	(4)
Index	248