Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, ... 42 maps that explain World War II. by Timothy B. Lee. Nov 13, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC.

T he declarations had not yet come, but on Aug. 28, 1939, Europe already knew war was on its way. On that day, 75 years ago, the armies that would fight what became World War II had gathered. Just ...

In World War II, clandestine maps were printed onto cloth handkerchiefs to be used by Allied servicemen in case of capture behind enemy lines. Treasuring my father-in-law’s old cloth hankies ...

The maps show the drastic population density change between the end of World War One and the end of World War Two. Three interactive maps show the changes from 1920-1930, 1930-1940 and 1940-1950.

In the original version of the map, from August 1941, Harrison blackened the entire Soviet Union as part of the Axis to reflect the recent German invasion. In the edition two years later here, the ...

Read WW2 Blitz map latest on ITV News. All the Friday 7th December 2012 news An interactive map has been created showing where German bombs landed on London during eight months of the Second World ...