New York Times Complete World War II: All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front [With DVD ROM] Hardcover - 2013

Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generation, A Long Way From Home, The Time of Our Lives and other books, and the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He is the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets.

Richard Overy is a British historian who has written extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. In 2007 as the Times editor of Complete History of the World, he chose the fifty key dates of world history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the British Academy, and King's College. In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Elliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History for his contributions to the history of warfare. In 2004 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Exeter. He has written over 30 books on World War II, including Why the Allies Won and 1939: Countdown to War. His work on World War II has been praised as "highly effective (in) the ruthless dispelling of myths" (A.J.P. Taylor), "original and important" (New York Review of Books) and "at the cutting edge" (Times Literary Supplement.)