The app also includes videos, mostly culled from old newsreel footage. In addition, each section provides a swipeable timeline-again, with tappable links to more content-and a basic map showing what territories were held by the Axis and Allied nations at the end of the selected year.Ī multimedia section offers photo features on everything from propaganda posters to images and information on the tanks used in battle. The articles are fairly compact, but they’re augmented with tappable links and summary boxes for a good recap of events. The 1943 section, for example, lets you read up on everything from the Tunisia campaign to the invasion of Sicily to American advances in the Pacific theater. Within each section, you’ll find articles on specific events. Both apps are worthwhile downloads for history buffs, particularly students, but one of them in particular does a standout job of putting its own stamp on the story of the conflict. I’ve recently spent some time with a pair of apps- World War II Interactive and Timeline World War 2-that take the same information about the war that I pored over decades ago and present it in an eye-popping new fashion. And that’s given developers a chance to use the iPad’s touch interface and multimedia support to make history come alive in ways that few people probably imagined back in 1982. The 10-year-olds of 2012 have more sophisticated tools at their disposal in the form of Apple’s iPad. But for a 10-year-old it was just the sort of stuff to spark an interest in history that continues to this day. I checked out a book from the library about World War II-it may well have been one of those Time-Life overviews of the war that doubtlessly make serious historians cringe.
When I was about 10 years old, I decided it was time to graduate from the Scholastic Reader-approved books of my youth to what I determined was meatier, more adult fare.
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