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Title: No End Save Victory (Volume 2) by Robert Cowley, William H. Whyte, William Manchester, George Feifer, Leo Burmester, Robert Burmester ISBN: 1-56511-516-3 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Pub. Date: 25 October, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: WW II Reader Illuminates and Fascinates
Comment: This is a compilation book featuring articles that have appeared in MHQ, the military history magazine.
Authors such as Stephen Ambrose, Caleb Carr, John Keegan and others explore some of the finer points and fascinating vignettes of the Second World War. This book is not a complete history of the conflict and does not intend to be. For the reader who has an understanding of the basics of the war, this fine collection will serve to illuminate little known aspects and operations as well as introduce topics that can be explored in greater depth by other books.
I personally was fascinated by several of the articles. There is a gripping account of the retreat from Bataan and the stoic majesty of General King who had to surrender the American forces in the Philippines. Caleb Carr writes a good account of the German invasion of Poland that gives more credit to the Poles than readers usually find. Likewise the articles on Stalingrad and the Turning Points of Tarawa are interesting. John Keegan does his usual masterful work in an account of the Battle of Berlin.
But the stories that one usually doesn't hear about are the real treats. Paul Kemp reveals one of the Italian success stories in Decima Mas, about a waterborn sabatouge unit that was successful in sinking and damaging significant British shipping in the Mediterranian. I had not been aware of this unit at all before this book. Also new to me were descriptions of a Nazi automated weather station landed in North America on the coast of Labrador and the tale of a Soviet offensive contemporary to the Stalingrad encirlement that was a large failure and cost Stalin 500,000 men. Descriptions of the reaction in Tokyo to Pearl Harbor on December 8th, an account of Orde Wingate's Chindits, the story of the Channel Dash by German naval surface ships, the successful raid that destroyed the Nazi heavy water factory in Norway, the diary of a B-17 tail gunner and the account of a Kamikaze pilot who survived his mission are fascinating.
With it's varied topics, first class authors and relatively short articles, this book should not boor the history buff and will probably introduce all but the professional military historians of the period to new information and fascinating stories of World War II.
Rating: 5
Summary: Heavyweight Authors Write on World War II
Comment: We have heavyweight authors such as William Manchester, Stephen Ambrose, Caleb Carr, John Keegan, and others write essays covering all aspects of World War II in this heavyweight volume of 688 pages. The essays are fairly short so you can put the book down and come back to it later without feeling you have to pick up where you left off. From familiar stories such as the invasion of Normandy to an interesting story on Germany's Black Knight, Field Marshal von Rundstedt and another on General Curtis LeMay will provide you, the reader, with additional information whatever your background on World War II. As mentioned, the book is long, but the essays enable you to break the book up into managable parts so you are able to pioneer your way through it successfully. Don't be intimidated by the length. It is worth the time to wade through it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Essays by Today's Foremost World War II Authors
Comment: This book offers a fine collection of essays written by today's foremost authorities on the second world war. Authors such as Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan, and Dan Kurzman have contributed to this fine book. The layout of the book is excellent. Instead of having individual chapters, the editors have put the essays into chronological order, so the reader doesn't necessarily have to read the book in sequential order. Rather, the reader has the freedom to skip to the parts of the book that they find the most interesting if they so choose.
Each essay gives a unique insight into a specific area of the war. Some of my favorites included "Diary of a Tail Gunner", told by a B-17 tail gunner who survived twenty six missons over Nazi territory. I also enjoyed "The Other Pearl Harbor", which discussed MacArthur's failures in the Phillipines after the Pearl Harbor attack. There is something for everyone in this book, regardless if you enjoy reading about the European or Pacific theaters.
This is a good book and gives a fine overview of the entire war as well as some lesser-known encounters.
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Title: What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0425176428 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by Patrick O'Donnell ISBN: 0684873850 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: 0743202759 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson ISBN: 0805062882 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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