War Leaders

1 Patton
2 MacArthur
3 Hitler
4 Stilwell
5 Bradley
6 Mountbatten
7 De Gaulle
8 Goring
9 Eisenhower
10 Tito
11 Skorzeny
12 Slim
13 Mussolini
14 Himmler
15 Student
16 Churchill
17 Goebbels
18 Lawrence of Arabia
19 MacArthur in Japan
20 Guderian
21 Stauffenberg
22 Heydrich
23 Churchill 1914-18
24 Yamashita
25 Rundstedt
26 Halsey
27 Rommel
28 Zhukov
29 Montgomery
30 Tojo
31 Stalin

Battles

1. D-Day
2 Their Finest Hour
3 Stalingrad
4 Bastogne
5 Siege of Leningrad
6 Battle for Berlin
7 Kursk
8 Tarawa
9 Airborne Carpet
10 Pearl Harbor
11 Leyte Gulf
12 Okinawa
13 Defence of Moscow
14 Raid on St. Nazaire
15 Anzio
16 Cassino
17 London's Burning
18 Kasserine
19 Battle of the Reichswald
20 Midway
21 Battle of the Ruhr Pocket
22 Beda Fomm
23 Bir Hacheim
24 Salerno
25 Armoured Onslaught
26 Vimy Ridge
27 Rhine Crossing
28 Argonne 1918
29 Rotterdam
30 Ploesti
31 Zeebrugge
32 Iwo Jima
33 Pien Bien Phu-

Weapons
1 U-Boat
2 Panzer Division
3 Aircraft Carriers
4 Me. 109
5 German Secret Weapons
6 Spitfire
7 Commando
8 SS and Gestapo
9 Zero
10 Luftwaffe
11 Guns 1939-45
12 Airborne
13 PT Boats
14 Kitty Hawk
15 Tank Force: Allied Armor
16 Waffen SS
17 B-29
18 Barrage
19 Allied Secret Weapons
20 Rocket Fighter
21 T-34: Russian Armor
22 Suicide Weapons
23 Hitler's High Seas Fleet
24 Mosquito
25 Infantry Weapons
26 P-51 Mustang
27 Guns 1914-18
28 Trench Fighting 1914-18
29 Flying Tigers
30 Lancaster Bomber
31 Merrill's Marauders
32 German General Staff
33 Japanese High Seas Fleet
34 Chindits
35 Condor Legion
36 Jeep
37 Grenades, & Mortars
38 Wellington Bomber
39 Hitler's Bodyguards
40 B- 17 Flying Fortress
41 German Armor
42 Midget Submarine
43 Gas
44 DC-3

The first books of this new series began to appear early in 1968. The last of the 153 books in this series was published in 1974. By 1976 there were nine titles being reprinted in a silvery new format.

Ballantine Books launched their extended series, the Illustrated History of the Violent Century, in 1972. It was referred to as "extended" because it incorporated Ballantine's earlier Illustrated History of World War III, which itself began as Purnell's Illustrated History of the Second World War.

The three initial categories of Battle, Campaign and Weapon in the Illustrated History of World War II were expanded to include the First World War and were supplemented by three new categories: War Leaders, Politics (originally called Politics in Action) and Human Conflicts.

A number of titles were announced for one category or with one title but appeared in another category or with another title:

Nuremberg Trials was announced for Human Conflict but appeared in Politics; Ar

Defense of Moscow was announced for Campaign but appeared in Battle;

Chindits was announced for Campaign but appeared in Weapon;

Fall of Singapore finally appeared as Defeat in Malaya

East African Campaign eventually appeared as Tanganyika Guerilla.

In addition, a number of titles were announced but never published, e.g.:

Claire Chennault (War Leader)
Hess (War Leader)
Nivelle Offensive (Battle)
Brusilov Offensive (Campaign)
Revolt in Ghana (Politics)
St. Valentine's Day (Human Conflict)

CAMPAIGNS

1 Afrika Korps
2 Raiders
3 Sicily
4 Breakout
5 Defeat in Malaya
6 France
7 Bomber Offensive
8 Nuremberg Rallies
9 Japan
10 Liberation of the Philippines
11 Barbarossa
12 Normandy Bridgehead
13 New Guinea
14 Guadalcanal
15 New Georgia
16 Fall of the Philippines
17 Schweinfurt Raids
18 Carpathian Disaster
19 1914 Opening Moves
20 Tanganyika Guerilla
21 Pacific Onslaught
22 Operation Torch
23 Over the Hump
24 The Winter War
25 Pacific Victory
26 Tobruk
27 Six Day War
28 Palaus
29 Yom Kippur War

Politics

1. The Conspirators
2 Blackshirts
3 Reichstag Fire
4 Rape of Ethiopia
5 Warsaw Rising
6 Hitler Youth
7 Night of the Long Knives
8 Nuremberg Trials
9 Freedom for Women
10 Berlin Blockade

Human Conflict

1 Olympiad 1936
2 Lidice
3 Death Railway
4 Genocide
5 Bloody Ulster

Special

Nazi Regalia