LIFE'S PICTURE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II (368 pp.)Time Inc. ($10).
Most combat men of World War II saw only their tiny private areas of tension and boredom, explosively punctuated by sudden death. But cameramen in every theater were seizing the embattled moment on film, and artist-correspondents were recording bits of the war's hue and heroism on canvas. LIFE'S Picture History of World War II fits 726 such vivid fragments into a monumental mosaic covering every important aspect of the war and putting it all in sharp, balanced historical perspective.
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