Bitter Ashes: The Story of WW II

by John Wilson

World War II was the greatest conflict in human history. It gave birth to the Atomic Age, the Cold War, and the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s. It also planted the seeds of today's Middle East crises, as well as other conflicts that continue to rage. These events may seem like terrible myths to younger people today, but they are not distant history. Bitter Ashes puts these events in context for today’s young readers. Every page is illustrated with either archival photographs or maps, which will help lead the casual reader into the story. This book will be indispensable to Social Science teachers who are either covering twentieth century history, or wish to give their students the background to the modern world. It will provide context and clarification of the complex issues that created the world we live in today.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published August 29, 2009

About the author

John Wilson, an ex-geologist and frustrated historian, is the award-winning author of fifty novels and non-fiction books for adults and teens. His passion for history informs everything he writes, from the recreated journal of an officer on Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition to young soldiers experiencing the horrors of the First and Second World Wars and a memoir of his own history. John researches and writes in Lantzville on Vancouver Island. There are many more details in his memoir, Lands of Lost Content, https://www.amazon.com/Lands-Lost-Con...