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Spend an interesting afternoon with this easy-to-read history of the first global war. World War Two was also the first was won by machines. Tanks with bulletproof steel bodies and powerful cannons ruled the battlefield. One tank could defeat a thousand riflemen.At sea, a submarine could sink dozens of ships. Mighty aircraft carriers attacked targets that were far out of sight. Cities far behind enemy lines were blasted and burned by long-range bombers. Jet-fighters, drone missiles and the first space rockets joined the fighting as nations raced each other to invent more deadly weapons. And then there was the atomic bomb...When you finish this fast-moving book you will understand more of our past, our present... and perhaps our future.