Signal, Years of Triumph, 1940-42: Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine

This is Book II in what turned out to be a series of three, but like the third installment it reprints what appears to be a "substantial minority" (~20%) of material from Book I...otherwise, this volume (as well as the third one) would have rated a full five stars for me! Too bad, too, that most pages are simply B & W, when the original magazines were mostly, if not totally, in full-color. Some articles of personal interest weren't reprinted in their entirety; a bit disappointing since it would have been great to see the official German view on such things as the Jews, the Japanese, and German Africa. I notice that the series editor seems to have a preference for geopolitical articles. Very nice selections of the German view of their own society (happy, etc.) -- highly recommended! Extremely odd that there isn't any more interest.

This book consists of a collection of Signal magazine articles from the period of WW2 when Germany was undefeated. Germany had conquered Poland in two weeks. Next, they secured all of northern Europe, Belguim, Holland and France in approximately six weeks. In the spring of 1941, they conducted a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Armies massed on their eastern border (according to the book "Ice Breaker") two weeks before the Soviets were to attack. At the time, it appeared that Germany was going to be victorious on all fronts.The German equilivalent to "Life" and "Look" magazines was "Signal". It was printed in about nineteen languages for distribution throughout all of the countries that Germany controlled. The English version was printed for the residents of the English Channel Islands which had been captured by Germany early in the war.No WW2 library would be complete without this excellent set of books on what the war was like from a German perspective.