{"title":"Look at the World—A Fortune Atlas for World Strategy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"one-world-one-war-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006742","title":"One World One War—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'One World, One War'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne World, One War. This reduced atlas version of Harrison’s celebrated map, originally published in Fortune in March 1942, developed in turn from his August 1941 The World Divided, updates the war’s line-up to October 15, 1943. Centered on the North Pole, the azimuthal equidistant projection makes the polar sea the center of global strategy, drawing North America, Europe and Asia into one northern theater. Harrison uses colour to distinguish Allied, pro-Allied neutral, neutral, Axis-occupied and Axis territories, while red great-circle routes visualize supply and attack lines. Published in June 1944, the map argues that the war is one interconnected conflict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517686619,"sku":"P-8-006742","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006742a.jpg?v=1778179191"},{"product_id":"outward-from-the-u-s-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006743","title":"Outward from the U.S.—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Outward from the U.S.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis atlas version of an earlier Harrison map first published in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen forms the conceptual opening to his American-facing sequence. Harrison’s imagined globe view—strikingly modern before the age of spaceflight—centers the United States, but only to undermine any complacent sense of isolation. His central point is that strategic distance must be measured on the globe, not on the familiar but distorting Mercator projection. Thus Alaska, Greenland, the Arctic, Latin America and the Atlantic press in as active strategic realities, while the text notes that the U.S. northeast coast is closer to England than to the South American bulge. Reissued in June 1944, after America had become a global belligerent, the map recasts geography as necessity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517752155,"sku":"P-8-006743","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006743a.jpg?v=1778179264"},{"product_id":"northeast-to-europe-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006744","title":"Northeast to Europe—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Northeast to Europe'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNortheast to Europe. This atlas version of an earlier Harrison map first published in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen turns the North Atlantic into a corridor rather than a barrier. The sepia relief view highlights Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence as strategically crucial stepping-stones between American arms production and Europe. Harrison’s text makes the logistical argument: Weapons made in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Detroit reach the European battlefront only through northern harbours, convoy routes, airfields and weather stations. Reissued in June 1944, with the success of the Normandy landings dependent on Atlantic supply, the map shows why bleak northern coasts had become indispensable strategic infrastructure.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517817691,"sku":"P-8-006744","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006744a.jpg?v=1778179193"},{"product_id":"northwest-to-asia-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006745","title":"Northwest to Asia—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Northwest to Asia'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorthwest to Asia. This atlas version of an earlier Harrison map originally included in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen makes Alaska the center rather than the edge of American Pacific strategy. Great-circle geography shows that the direct approach from the U.S. West Coast to Japan and Asia runs northwest through Alaska and the Aleutians, not straight west across a conventional Pacific map. Dutch Harbor, Attu, Kiska and Fairbanks become strategic centers, linking the United States to enemy Japan, the Soviet ally and future trans-Pacific trade. In June 1944, the map recasts the supposedly remote frontier as America’s shortest gateway to Asia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517850459,"sku":"P-8-006745","price":59.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006745a.jpg?v=1778179194"},{"product_id":"southeast-to-latin-america-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006746","title":"Southeast to Latin America—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Southeast to Latin America'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoutheast to Latin America. This atlas version of an earlier Harrison map originally included in Fortune’s September 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen overturns two assumptions: that Central America naturally unites the Americas, and that South America lies simply “south” of the United States. The map stresses barriers and chokepoints—the incomplete Pan-American Highway, sparse rail links, the Caribbean island screen and above all the Panama Canal. In wartime, the canal becomes the essential strategic object south of the United States, defended by sea and air bases, hidden anchorages and Caribbean control. Harrison’s point is hemispheric: Latin America is a southeastern Atlantic partner in trade, defense and Allied mobility.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517883227,"sku":"P-8-006746","price":59.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006746a.jpg?v=1778179195"},{"product_id":"south-america-and-africa-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006747","title":"South America and Africa—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'South America and Africa'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis atlas version of an earlier Harrison map included in Fortune’s 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen uses paired globular views to puncture the tempting idea that Brazil and West Africa form a natural wartime bridge. Harrison argues that, unless better routes are blocked, South America and Africa “lead only to each other”: their bulges look close, but distance, routes and strategic purpose say otherwise. Ascension may link them, yet Dakar lies off the main great-circle routes and, without British control of the Mediterranean, Africa becomes an obstacle to be sailed around or flown over. Reissued in June 1944, the map teaches that strategy depends not on visual proximity, but on communications, bases and chokepoints.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517948763,"sku":"P-8-006747","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006747a.jpg?v=1778179196"},{"product_id":"the-u-s-from-the-outside-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006748","title":"The U.S. from the Outside—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The U.S. from the Outside'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The U.S. from the Outside\", originally issued in 1940 as \"Three Approaches to the United States\", reverses the American gaze. Harrison shows three hypothetical vulnerabilities: a German polar approach through Canada, a Japanese northern Pacific approach, and an East Coast threat from South America through the West Indies. Instead of viewing the United States outward, the map views the US from the persepctive of its  actual and potential enemies. Reissued in June 1944, after Pearl Harbor had confirmed the northern Pacific danger, it reads as prophetic anti-isolationist cartography: America’s borders were far more exposed than Mercator maps suggested.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517981531,"sku":"P-8-006748","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006748a.jpg?v=1778179195"},{"product_id":"europe-from-the-northwest-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006750","title":"Europe from the Northwest—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Europe from the Northwest'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eReissued in June 1944, as the Normandy invasion was under way, Harrison’s map acquired immediate new force. It makes Britain, Iceland, the Azores, the North Atlantic and North America part of a single invasion geography: an assault on Europe’s western approaches depended on a chain of routes and bases stretching from North America and the Azores to Britain and the Channel—convoy lanes, island stepping-stones, airfields, bomber bases and weather intelligence. It also clarifies the logic of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, designed to defend Europe’s “long sprawling western shore.” Once ashore, however, the map emphasizes Allied advantage: northwestern Europe offered a broad coastal plain with relatively few natural barriers, its invasion obstructed chiefly by man-made defenses. Harrison contrasts this open geography with the more rugged southern approaches.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518014299,"sku":"P-8-006750","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006750a.jpg?v=1778179196"},{"product_id":"atlantic-arena-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006749","title":"Atlantic Arena—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Atlantic Arena'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtlantic Arena. This 1944 atlas-edition reissue of Harrison’s map, first published in 1942, presents the Atlantic not as empty ocean but as the industrial and logistical heart of Allied war power. Centred on the North Atlantic, the orthographic hemisphere uses red supply lines to show how New York — source of “four-fifths of wartime supply” — was connected by sea to Britain, Russia, North Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. Reissued in June 1944, the map’s message was unmistakable: victory depended on maritime logistics as much as battlefield manoeuvre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518047067,"sku":"P-8-006749","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006749a.jpg?v=1778179195"},{"product_id":"europe-from-the-southwest-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006751","title":"Europe from the Southwest—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Europe from the Southwest'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis atlas version of Harrison’s map, origianlly issues in January 1943 as \"The Not-So-Soft Underside\", but here retitled \"Europe from the Southwest\", reveals a changed emphasis. The original map challenged Churchill’s \"soft underbelly\" strategy: Harrison saw the Mediterranean approach as a formidable geography of mountains, islands, narrow seas and difficult coasts. By June 1944, after Sicily had fallen, Mussolini had been overthrown and Italy had changed sides, Harrison's sharper title—and message—had softened. Perhaps Harrison had been partly wrong: Churchill had seen not easy terrain, but a weak Italian enemy vulnerable to collapse. Yet the brutal Italian campaign also vindicated Harrison’s warning. The map’s later message is more balanced: southern Europe was strategically vital, but never geographically easy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518112603,"sku":"P-8-006751","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006751a.jpg?v=1778179196"},{"product_id":"europe-from-the-east-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006752","title":"Europe from the East—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Europe from the East'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison’s \"Europe from the East\" shows the continent from the Soviet side of the war. The unfamiliar perspective displaces Western Europe’s usual centrality: Britain, France and Germany lie beyond a landmass framed by Scandinavia, the Baltic, the Black Sea and North Africa. It makes Germany’s position legible as a fortress pressed from east and west, but also exposes the geographic openness of Eastern Europe. With the Red Army advancing in June 1944, the same plains that had channelled earlier invasions of Russia now carried Soviet power westward. Read retrospectively, the map foreshadows the buffer-zone politics of the Cold War, as Moscow sought security through domination of Eastern Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518145371,"sku":"P-8-006752","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006752a.jpg?v=1778179198"},{"product_id":"world-island-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006753","title":"World Island—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'World Island'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis reduced atlas version of Harrison’s January 1943 map applies Mackinder’s Heartland theory to the Second World War. The orthographic view centers Eurasia and Africa as the decisive landmass, while the text treats German geopolitics and Haushofer’s world-conquest dreams as inflated, pseudo-geographical fantasy. Harrison argues that Germany mistook bulk for power: Russia—the Heartland—was threatening but underdeveloped, vulnerable to air and Arctic approaches, and too vast to seize. Allied strategy, by contrast, succeeded by closing on the enemy from vital geographical points rather than breaking outward from a supposed center. The map ends with a postwar lesson: Central Asia should be rebuilt as a route of trade, not conquered as a prize.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518178139,"sku":"P-8-006753","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006753a.jpg?v=1778179196"},{"product_id":"southeast-to-asia-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006754","title":"Southeast to Asia—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Southeast to Asia'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis atlas version of Harrison’s map originally published in February 1942 as \"Southeast to Armageddon\" views the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean from above Hitler’s Alpine retreat, recasting the region as the gateway of a failed Axis design. Its relief and key to railways, highways, pipelines and oilfields explain why Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and India mattered: they offered oil, communications and the imagined junction of German and Japanese power. Harrison credits Britain’s “experienced geographical sense” in committing scarce military resources to the region early in the war. By June 1944, Stalingrad, El Alamein, the occupation of Iran and Allied landings in North Africa had transformed this threatened corridor into a base for Allied offensives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518210907,"sku":"P-8-006754","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006754a.jpg?v=1778179198"},{"product_id":"u-s-s-r-from-the-south-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006755","title":"U.S.S.R. from the South—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'U.S.S.R. from the South'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eU.S.S.R. from the South views the Soviet Union from its vulnerable southern approaches. Harrison’s perspective draws attention to the Caucasus, Black Sea, Caspian, Iran and Central Asia, where oil, railways, population and imperial ambition converged. The population inset and transport legend reinforce the point: Russia’s strength and vulnerability alike lay in its vast distances, resources and communications. Reissued in June 1944, after Germany’s drive toward the Caucasus oilfields had failed at Stalingrad and Rommel’s advance toward Egypt and the Middle East had been stopped at El Alamein, the map presents southern Russia not as a remote margin, but as a crucial wartime theatre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518243675,"sku":"P-8-006755","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006755a_f904ce38-f2bc-4a8a-b1ae-fd702caa227b.jpg?v=1778784365"},{"product_id":"china-from-the-east-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006756","title":"China from the East—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'China from the East'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison’s map, originally issued in 1941, highlights China’s central wartime problem: not territory, but access. Seen from the east, it emphasizes China’s restricted access to the sea, with many outlets blocked, threatened, or occupied by Japan, leaving Free China dependent on tenuous inland and frontier communications. Harrison picks out in blue the fragile network of roads, rivers, railways and smuggling ports linking the coast and outer supply routes to the Chinese interior. The inset showing the wartime migration of Chinese universities underscores China’s resilience under invasion. Reissued in June 1944, the map presents China as an important Allied partner, but one constrained by distance, terrain, and blockade.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518309211,"sku":"P-8-006756","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006756a_12435b67-5f01-42c9-941e-04a84260819a.jpg?v=1778784366"},{"product_id":"pacific-arena-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006757","title":"Pacific Arena—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Pacific Arena'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis reduced atlas version of Harrison’s Pacific Arena, first published in September 1942, uses an orthographic globe to make the vast Pacific comprehensible as a single strategic theatre. Harrison’s key point is that the most direct U.S.–Japan route is not across the central Pacific, but north through Dutch Harbor and the Aleutians. Pearl Harbor becomes a flank position, Truk its Japanese counterpart, while Japan’s island empire appears as an elaborate defensive grid running through the Ryukyus, Philippines, East Indies, Marianas, Carolines and Marshalls. Reissued in June 1944, as American forces advanced toward Japan, the map shows both the strength of Japan’s perimeter and its weakness: China, Siberia and the northern route offered no natural defensive line.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518341979,"sku":"P-8-006757","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006757a.jpg?v=1778179197"},{"product_id":"japan-from-alaska-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006758","title":"Japan from Alaska—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Japan from Alaska'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison's \"Japan from Alaska\" argues that the northern Pacific was not a remote flank but a direct approach to Japan. By curving Alaska, the Aleutians, Kamchatka, the Kuriles and Hokkaido into one visual corridor, Harrison shows how the route from North America cuts into the heart of the Japanese Empire. The recent fight for Attu and Kiska made this geography immediate. 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The perspective makes clear why the Solomons, New Guinea, the Carolines, Marshalls, Marianas and Truk mattered: they were not isolated island names but links in Japan’s outer defensive system and in the Allied line of advance. Harrison also emphasizes the sobering distances involved; Japan still lies on the far horizon. 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Newly prepared for Harrison’s 1944 atlas and also reproduced in Fortune in December 1943, Japan from China presents East Asia from the continental side. The perspective makes Japan less an isolated island empire than a power exposed to China, Korea, Manchuria and the western Pacific approaches. Harrison’s accompanying text stresses both opportunity and difficulty: China offered the closest Allied continental approach to Japan, but American material had to reach it over some of the world’s highest mountain barriers. 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The captions sharpen the lesson: American isolation is “more seeming than real,” Iceland is the North Atlantic “kingpin,” Alaska a “causeway to the World Island,” and Asia both “cradle of civilization” and “grave of conquest.” The map trains a wartime public to distrust habitual Mercator-centred geography and to think strategically from multiple perspectives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518538587,"sku":"P-8-006763","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006763a.jpg?v=1778179198"},{"product_id":"arctic-arena-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006762","title":"Arctic Arena—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Arctic Arena'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis reduced-sized edition of a map first published in July 1942 presents the polar north as a newly recognized center of air-age geography. 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Centered on the North Pole, the map overturns Mercator assumptions of American distance and safety, showing North America, Europe and Asia linked most directly across the Arctic. Harrison’s message was both wartime and prophetic. In the age of aircraft, oceans no longer guaranteed security; attack, supply and commerce could pass through the polar north. 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