This is third volume of Eyewitness History Of World War II deals with the initial period of Axis reversals and the early steps back on the long road to Allied victory. This volume starts with the three great turning points of the war: Stalingrad in Russia, Midway in the Pacific and El Alamein North Africa. As it closes, Rome has fallen, the Nazis are reeling under a mighty Soviet counter-offensive and the first of the bloody, costly, Pacific Island campaigns have been successfully concluded..