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Second World War: A Complete History [by Martin Gilbert, Revised Edition, Pap...
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Mar 24, 2008
Martin Gilbert makes reading about the world wars very accessible, which is a great accomplishment, since it's such important history. His books tend to focus on the human element: less chronology, more impact on humanity. I definitely recommend this book.
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Singer, author of "Mother Flies Hurricanes")This book lays out, in great detail and in chronological order, exactly what happened in those countries at war between 1939 and 1945...
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The two running themes that do emerge from the piling on of detail after detail are: 1) the Germans' relentless persecution of the Jews, despite military setbacks and setbacks in prosecuting the war, and 2) the vital role of the codebreakers in helping win specific battles and, ultimately, the war itself...
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I found Martin Gilberts' book a wonderful resource in threading the "history bits" through Mother Flies Hurricanes, as background to the story...
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The detail is incredible and for the first time I was given a truly complete, unbiased picture of the war...
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Although overwhelming in its detail, Gilbert's book brilliantly captures the day-by-day evolution of the war on all fronts, which nicely supplements other, more "themed" presentations (such as Keegan's outstanding book...
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To get the reasons and wherefores, you'd do better to pick some of the other books suggested in the "Best Books About WWII" section of the motherflieshurricanes.com website...
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World War II is the area of history that I study the most, and this book is its best description that I have ever seen...
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It's not so much a historical treatise as a diary of day-to-day happenings; the accounts skip all over the world--so it's like "Now while this was happening in England, this was going on in the Pacific, in Russia, in North Africa, in Germany, in the Nazi concentration camps, etc." Both the "Big Pictures" and the "Little Bits" are presented, from large-scale battles to the very personal stories: For instance, on the same day that the resistance fighters in the revolt of Warsaw were on the verge of collapse and desperately appealed to the Allies for aid, Anne Frank and her family, hiding out in Amsterdam, were betrayed to the Gestapo...
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For the most part, Martin Gilbert doesn't discuss cause and effect of the episodes and events he presents...
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