An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War, The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook is the first of its kind to provide an ambitious and wide-ranging survey of the war in a convenient and comprehensive package. Conveying the sheer scale and reach of the conflict, the book's twelve chapters include sufficient narrative and analysis to enable students to grasp both the war's broad outlines and the context and significance of each particular source. Beginning with the growing disenchantment over the World War I peace settlements and the determination of German, Italian, and Japanese leaders to revise the situation, the book traces the descent into open, armed conflict. It covers the spectacular early successes of the Germans and Japanese, the pivotal campaigns of 1942, and the Allied effort during the remaining three years to destroy the Axis' capacity to wage war. Drawing examples from a wide range of documents, the text also includes visual sources: propaganda posters, photos, and cartoons.

"for a single-volume collection of medium length it would be difficult to better it. Even specialists should find a considerable amount of interesting material that is new to them. This is certainly an appropriate collection for students in a general university course on the Second World War. ... This is certainly a valuable collection, and one highly to be recommended." - Evan Mawdsley, War in History

"This three-volume edition of Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a beautifully presented, well illustrated, and extensively annotated text,...It should be on the library shelf." - Mark Philip, Essays in Critism