The War Atlas
Every battle and event in the database, placed where it happened. Each marker is sized by how many books cover it and coloured by theatre — click one to see the essential reading.
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Browse all 36 events as a list
- Battle of Tannenberg
- Assassination at Sarajevo
- First Battle of the Marne
- Gallipoli Campaign
- Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Verdun
- Battle of Jutland
- Passchendaele (Third Ypres)
- German Spring Offensive
- Hundred Days Offensive & Armistice
- Japan Invades China
- Invasion of Poland
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Battle of Britain & The Blitz
- Dunkirk Evacuation
- North Africa Campaign
- The Holocaust
- Operation Barbarossa
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Siege of Leningrad
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Guadalcanal Campaign
- Battle of Midway
- Burma Campaign
- Fall of the Philippines & Bataan
- Italian Campaign
- Battle of Kursk
- D-Day / Normandy Landings
- Battle of the Bulge
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Operation Market Garden
- Fall of Berlin
- Atomic Bombings
- Bombing of Dresden
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Iwo Jima