Time: Absolute Victory: America's Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph

In the last, triumphant months of World War II, young Americans won their nation+s greatest victory-or victories. For the war they won was a world war, a conflict fought on two very different fronts in two very different ways. In Europe, the battle-tested troops who had landed in Normandy on D-Day fought their way onto Adolf Hitler+s doorstep, then crossed the Rhine and brought down the Nazis -thousand-year Reich.+ Meanwhile, across the Pacific, sailors, Marines and airmen teamed up to invade a series of crucial islands Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa-rolling back a tough Japanese enemy and paving the way for the surprising end of the war with the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima.Every step of every day, these members of -The Greatest Generation+ were shadowed by reporters and photographers from two great American magazines, Time and Life. Now, the editors of Time have returned to these archives to compile a memorable, visually stunning portrait of those stirring times, America+s Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph.