Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection

Selected maps from "The War in Maps", 1939-1940

The following maps are from "The War in Maps" edited by Giselher Wirsing, New York, German Library of Information, 1941.

The War in Maps [PDF] (42.6MB)

Advance of Germany Army from June 5, 1940, to Armistice at Compiègne (1.0MB)

Norway: Boldest Invasion by Sea in Military History (1.2MB)

Central Powers Encircled by Entente, 1914 (1.6MB)

England a Threat to the Monroe Doctrine (743.1KB)

England, Intruder in the Mediterranean (1.5MB)

England, Parasite of Asia (1.2MB)

England's Predatory Campaign in Five Continents, 1605-1940 (1.9MB)

England's Promise; Sherif Hussein's Greater Arabia (1.5MB)

The Territory under Military Control of the Axis in 1940 (1.1MB)

German Fleet Bottled Up, 1914-1918 (890KB)

Germany and Southeast Europe, Natural Partners (2.1MB)

Germany Breaks Through to Atlantic (1.0MB)

How England Kept Her Word the Sykes-Picot Plan, 1919 (1.3MB)

India: Divide and Rule (1.3MB)

No Manacles This Time, 1940 (2.3MB)

Syria Split by France (879.7KB)

The Battle of Flanders (1.1MB)

The Blockaded Blockader (1.0MB)

The Blocking of the English Blockade (1.1MB)

The Encirclement has Failed (1.7MB)

The Europe of Hapsburg's Dreams (1.0MB)

The Hopeless Long-Distance Blockade of Europe (1.0MB)

The Versailles "Solution" and the Division of Spoils Planned in 1915 (1.4MB)