BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II (BALLANTINE BOOKS, INC.)
Series Note: "In 1968 Ballantine introduced the illustrated, large format paperback, when it issued the first four volumes of the Illustrated History of World War II series. The books combined picture and text in a fully-integrated well designed book. The success of the four books led to the introduction of the series into regular publication in 1969." (Source: George Thomas Kurian, The Directory of American Book Publishing, from Founding Fathers to Today's Conglomerates, Simon & Schuster, 1975, p. 68.)
The Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II series was later retitled Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. It was published both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
BATTLE SUBSERIES
Battle 1
D-Day: Spearhead of Invasion
by R. W. Thompson
Battle 2
Their Finest Hour: The Story of the Battle of Britain 1940
by Edward Bishop
Battle 3
Stalingrad: The Turning Point
by Geoffrey Jukes
Battle 4
Bastogne
by Peter Elstob
Battle 5
The Siege of Leningrad: Epic of Survival
by Alan Wykes
Battle 6
The Battle for Berlin : End of the Third Reich
by Earl F. Ziemke
Battle 7
Kursk: The Clash of Armour
by Geoffrey Jukes
Battle 8
Tarawa: A Legend Is Born
by Henry I. Shaw
Battle 9
Airborne Carpet, Operation Market Garden
by Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Battle 10
Pearl Harbor
by A. J. Barker
Battle 11
Leyte Gulf Armada in the Pacific
by Donald Macintyre
Battle 12
Okinawa: Touchstone to Victory
by Benis M. Frank
Battle 13
The Defense of Moscow
by Geoffrey Jukes
Battle 14
Raid on St. Nazaire
by David Mason
Battle 15
Anzio the Bid for Rome
by Christopher Hibbert
Battle 16
Cassino
by Dominick Graham
Battle 17
London's Burning
by Constantine FitzGibbon
Battle 18
Kasserine: Baptism of Fire
by Ward Rutherford
Battle 19
Battle of the Reichswald
by Peter Elstob
Battle 20
Midway, The Turning Point
by A. J. Barker
Battle 21
Battle of the Ruhr Pocket
by Charles Whiting
Battle 22
Beda Fomm, The Classic Victory
by Kenneth Macksey
Battle 23
Bir Hacheim, Desert Citadel
by Richard Holmes
Battle 24
Salerno, Foothold in Europe
by David Mason
Battle 25
Armoured Onslaught, 8th August 1918
by Douglas Orgill
Battle 26
Vimy Ridge 1914-18 Battle
by Kenneth Macksey
Battle 27
Rhine Crossing
by James W. Stock
Battle 29
Rotterdam: Invasion of Holland
by Wilhelmina Steenbeek
Battle 30
Ploesti: Oil Strike
by John Sweetman
Battle 31
Zeebrugge: 23 April 1918
by James W. Stock
Battle 32
Iwo Jima
by Michael Russell
Battle 33
Dien Bien Phu
by John Keegan
CAMPAIGN SUBSERIES
Campaign 1
Afrika Korps
by Major K.J. Macksey
Campaign 2
The Raiders: Desert Strike Force
by Arthur Swinson
Campaign 3
Sicily: Whose Victory?
by Martin Blumenson
Campaign 4
Breakout: Drive to the Seine
by David Mason
Campaign 5
Defeat in Malaya, The Fall of Singapore
by Arthur Swinson
Campaign 6
France, Summer 1940
by John Williams
Campaign 7
Bomber Offensive: The Devastation of Europe
by Noble Frankland
Campaign 8
The Nuremberg Rallies
by Alan Wykes
Campaign 9
Japan: The Final agony
by Alvin Coox
Campaign 10
Liberation of the Philippines
by Stanley L. Falk
Campaign 10 [sic]
Normandy Bridgehead
by Hubert Essame
Campaign 11
Barbarossa, Invasion of Russia 1941 by John Keegan
Campaign 12
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Campaign 13
New Guinea, The Tide is Stemmed
by John Vader
Campaign 14
Guadalcanal, Island Ordeal
by Graeme Kent
Campaign 15
New Georgia: Pattern for Victory
by Dick Crofton Horton
Campaign 16
Fall of the Philippines
by Ward Rutherford
Campaign 17
Schweinfurt: Disaster in the Skies
by John Sweetman
Campaign 18
Carpathian Disaster: Death of an Army
by Geoffrey Jukes
Campaign 21
Pacific Onslaught: 7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943
by Paul Kennedy
Campaign 22
Operation Torch
by Vincent Jones
Campaign 23
Over the Hump: Airlift to China by William J. Koenig
Campaign 24
The Winter War
by Richard W. Condon
Campaign 25
Pacific Victory by Paul Kennedy
Campaign 26
Tobruk: The Siege
by James W. Stock
Campaign 28
Palaus
by Stanley Falk
Campaign 29
Yom Kippur War
by A. J. Barker
FULL COLOR SPECIALS
Full Color Special 1
Nazi Regalia
by Jack Pia
Full Color Special 2
SS Regalia
by Jack Pia
WAR LEADER SUBSERIES
War Leader 1
Patton
by Charles Whiting
War Leader 2
MacArthur
by Sydney L. Mayer
War Leader 3
Hitler
by Alan Wykes
War Leader 4
Stilwell
by D. D. Rooney
War Leader 5
Bradley
by Charles Whiting
War Leader 6
Mountbatten
by Arthur Swinson
War Leader 7
De Gaulle
by Philippe Masson
War Leader 8
Göring
by Roger Manvell
War Leader 9
Eisenhower
by Martin Blumenson
War Leader 10
Tito: A Biography
by Phyllis Autys
War Leader 11
Skorzeny
by Charles Whiting
War Leader 12
Slim
by Michael Calvert
War Leader 13
Mussolini
by Christopher Hibbert
War Leader 14
Himmler
by Alan Wykes
War Leader 15
Student
by Anthony Farrar-Hockley
War Leader 16
Churchill
by David Mason
War Leader 17
Goebbels
by Alan Wykes
War Leader 18
Lawrence of Arabia
by Douglas Orgill
War Leader 19
MacArthur in Japan
by Sydney L. Mayer
War Leader 20
Guderian
by John Keegan
War Leader 22
Heydrich
by Alan Wykes
War Leader 23
Churchill, 1914-1918
by David Mason
War Leader 24
Yamashita
by A. J. Barker
War Leader 25
Rundstedt
by John Keegan
War Leader 26
Halsey by Benis M. Frank
War Leader 27
Rommel
by Roger Sibley
War Leader 28
Zhukov
by Otto Preston Chaney
War Leader 30
Tojo
by Alvin D. Coox
War Leader 31
Stalin
by Rose Tremain
WEAPONS SUBSERIES
Weapons 1
U-boat;: The secret menace
by David Mason
Weapons 2
Panzer Division: The Mailed Fist
by Kenneth Macksey
Weapons 3
Aircraft Carrier: The Majestic Weapon
by Donald Macintyre
Weapons 4
Me 109: Willy Messerschmitt's Peerless Fighter
by Martin Caidin
Weapons 5
German Secret Weapons: Blueprint for Mars
by Brian Ford
Weapons 6
Spitfire
by John Vader
Weapons 7
Commando
by Peter Young
Weapons 8
SS and Gestapo: Rule by Terror
by Roger Manvell
Weapons 9
Zero fighter
by Martin Caidin
Weapons 10
Luftwaffe: Birth, Life, and Death of an Air Force
by Alfred Price
Weapons 11
The Guns: 1939/45
by Ian V. Hogg
Weapons 12
Airborne
by Charles B. MacDonald
Weapons 13
PT Boats
by Bryan Cooper
Weapons 14
Pacific Hawk
by John Vader
Weapons 15
Tank Force: Allied Armor in World War II
by Kenneth Macksey
Weapons 16
Waffen SS, The Asphalt Soldiers
by John Keegan 1
Weapons 17
B29: The Superfortress
by Carl Berger
Weapons 18
Barrage : The Guns in Action
by Ian V. Hogg
Weapons 19
Allied Secret Weapons: The War of Science
by Brian J. Ford
Weapons 20
Rocket Fighter
by William Green
Weapons 21
T-34: Russian Armor
by Douglas Orgill
Weapons 22
Suicide Weapon
by A. J. Barker
Weapons 23
Hitler's High Seas Fleet
by Richard Humble
Weapons 24
Mosquito: Wooden Wonder
by Edward Bishop
Weapons 25
Infantry Weapons
by John S. Weeks
Weapons 26
P-51: Bomber Escort
by William N. Hess
Weapons 27
The Guns, 1914-18
by Ian V. Hogg
Weapons 29
Flying Tigers: Chennault in China
by Ronald Heiferman
Weapons 30
Lancaster Bomber
by D. B. Tubbs
Weapons 31
Merrill's Marauders
by Alan D. Baker
Weapons 32
German General Staff
by Barry A. Leach
Weapons 33
Japanese High Seas Fleet
by Richard Humble
Weapons 34
Chindits: Long Range Penetration
by Michael Calvert
Weapons 35
Condor Legion
by Peter Elstob
Weapons 36
Indestructible Jeep
by D Denfeld
Weapons 37
Grenades & Mortars
by Ian Hogg
Weapons 38
Wellington Bomber
by Edward Bishop
Weapons 39
Hitler's Bodyguards
by Alan Wykes
Weapons 40
B-17 Flying Fortress
by William Hess
Weapons 41
German Armor
by Douglas Orgill
Weapons 42
Midget Submarine
by James Gleason
Weapons 43
Gas
by Ian V. Hogg
Weapons 44
DC-3
by Arthur Pearcy
OTHER TITLES
The Conspirators : 20th July 1944
by Roger Manvell
Warsaw Rising
by Gunther Deschner
Author of this page:
David Paul Wagner
