Author Description

World War Two was the first war where the machines fought each other - but it won't be the last one. In the middle of the twentieth century, huge tanks with bulletproof armor and powerful cannons owned the battlefields. One tank could defeat a thousand riflemen. At sea, one submarine could sink dozens of ships. Giant battleships became obsolete, replaced by mighty aircraft carriers that attacked targets hundreds of miles away.Cities far behind enemy lines were burned and blasted by long-range bombers. Jet-fighters, drone missiles and space rockets joined in the fighting as nations raced each other to invent ever more deadly machines.And then there was the atomic bomb...This book will help readers better understand and change the world we live in.