This map, by Richard Edes Harrison, was published in 1942 in Life magazine to illustrate an article in the...
Maps of the Second World War
New Zealand's natural and industrial resources (1943)
This map, by Leslie MacDonald Gill, was commissioned by the UK Ministry of Information and published in...
Manila has fallen! (1945)
This map was created by the Psychological Warfare Branch (PWB) of the Allied Forces in 1945 and was released as a pamphlet...
38 million escaped, 10 million died (1943)
This map, by Elliott Anderson Means, was published by the Russian War Relief organisation in the United States during 1943,...
Map of the Soviet Union (1941)
This propaganda map, drawn by Robert M. Chapin and published in Time magazine in November 1941, shows the Soviet Union .....
It's a long journey to Rome (1944)
This poster, created by Germans and French in April 1944, shows a map of Italy after the invasion began...
The Iranian Empire and its Neighbours (1942)
This map, produced by the British News Centre, shows Iran and its neighbouring countries. It includes a calendar on the sides...
Dutch colonies in danger (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the San Francisco Examiner newspaper in October 1940, in the context...
The next European war will start in Ukraine (1939)
This map was published by the American magazine Look on 14 March 1939, half a year before the outbreak...
Iran, a rich land, a poor country (1946)
This map, published in Newsmap magazine in 1946, shows strategic information about Iran. Newsmap was a magazine published by...
The Pacific, an area of vital importance to Japan and the United States (1942)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in November 1942, in the context...
Trinity Test Site (1985)
This map was published in 1985 by Vincent C. Jones in his book Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic...
Safeguarding our American freedom (1941)
This map, created by Lambert Guenther and published by C. S. Hammond & Co. in 1941, shows military power...
Japan and Russia will divide China (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper in April 1940, in the context...
Tokyo becomes a battlefield (1945)
This map was created by the United States and released alongside the bombing of Tokyo on the night of 9...
Italian Civil War (1943–1945)
This map, created by Emanuele Mastrangelo in 2014, shows the Italian civil war between 1943 and 1945, between the fall...
Japanese pictorial map of the Middle East (1942)
This map, published by the Japanese publishing house Nobarasha (野ばら社) in 1942, shows the Middle East in the middle of the Second World War...
Italy hopes to bring back the Roman Empire (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the New York Journal-American newspaper in 1940, in the...
Towards a New World Order, Part 2 (1940)
This map first appeared in a 1940 edition of the Japanese magazine Comrades and Students at the Front...
Towards a New World Order, Part 1 (1940)
This map first appeared in a 1940 edition of the Japanese magazine Comrades and Students in the...
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