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Title: Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II by John Ellis ISBN: 0-684-16728-X Publisher: Encore Editions Pub. Date: March, 1983 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book of it's type I have encountered.
Comment: G.K. Chesterton said that "a...rational army would run away" and this book shows, better than any other that I have read, why it should and why, so often, it doesn't. In a field that includes Keegan's 'Face Of Battle' this is high praise.
Focusing on the experiences of the ordinary Western Allied soldier during the Second World War Ellis discusses the circumstances affecting the lives of the front line soldier from recruitment through training and combat to his eventual fate.
Ellis examines the detail of what was actually happening to the individual Tommy or GI, using many first hand accounts and an appropriate admixture of statistics, without ever becoming heavy going or gratuitously gory. Where there are blood and tears they are there because that is how it was. This approach enables a number of popular myths about the war to be examined in a clearer light. His comparison of the experiences of members of the rifle companies of an infantry battalion during the Second World War with his predecessor of 1914-18 is especially illuminating as is his analysis of what actually keeps soldiers fighting.
I found the book impossible to stop reading and was left with a feeling of great sadness, profound respect for individuals who kept going in circumstances that I personally would find overwhelming and a greater understanding of the mechanics of war that tend to sink below the magnification of many conventional military histories. If you have any interest in the subject matter at all, or possibly in the reaction of ordinary people to extraordinary circumstances, you should read 'The Sharp End'.
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Title: The Boys' Crusade : The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 by PAUL FUSSELL ISBN: 0679640886 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War by John Ellis ISBN: 0670807737 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II by Peter Schrijvers ISBN: 0814798071 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195065778 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195133323 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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