The World War 1939-1945 The Cartoonists' Vision by Roy Douglas. In a new approach to the history of the Second World War, Roy Douglas portrays the events through cartoons, explaining what message they were meant to convey to the contemporary reader and revealing the radically different perceptions of different countries as to where the most crucial issues of the war lay. Routledge, London and New York, 1990. Rescued from the Lansing Community College Library, Michigan.