This mass market paperback edition is The Taste of Courage Volume II The Axis Triumphant, edited by Desmond Flower and James Reeves and published as a Berkley Medallion Book. The volume covers major World War II events including Operation Barbarossa, Eighth Army versus Afrika Korps, Pearl Harbor and The Battle of the Lifelines, and contains an introductory table of contents and editorial material; copyright 1960 by Cassell & Company Ltd., published by arrangement with Harper & Row, Publishers. The cover features a portrait-style illustration and the Berkley Medallion imprint on the spine and cover.