WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR STUDENTS in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, the ROAD TO WAR: CAUSES OF CONFLICT series focuses on the events leading up to five major wars in American and world history. Each book presents an in-depth look at the underlying reasons for these conflicts, clearly explaining important events and concepts. The attractive layout includes an easy-to-read typeface and more than 25 color photographs, illustrations, and maps. Even reluctant readers will be captivated by these concise explanations of how and why world-changing wars occurred.

Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of dead and badly wounded Americans in a secret Pentagon file known to officials as the Chamber of Horrors. Later, as government leaders became concerned about public complacency brought on by Allied victories, they released some of these photographs of war's brutality. But to the war's end and after, they continued to censor photographs of mutilated or emotionally distressed American soldiers, of racial conflicts at American bases, and other visual evidence of disunity or disorder. In this book George H. Roeder, Jr., tells the story of how American opinions about World War II were manipulated both by the wartime images that citizens were allowed to see and by the images that were suppressed. His text is amplified by visual essays that include many previously unpublished photographs from the army's censored files.