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The Second World War: A Complete History
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by Martin Gilbert
Sales Rank: 12894
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List Price: $27.50
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 928 pages
Published by: Holt PaperbacksEdition: Revised Edition June 1, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0805076239
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0805076233
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.1 x 1.8 inches
Weighs: 2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
This volume has an "astonishingly broad" scope, revealing the impact of major campaigns on soldiers and civilians worldwide. "Masterful," said PW . "Though the military aspect is told with noteworthy clarity and narrative power, most impressive is Gilbert's presentation of WW II as primarily a matter of organized evil and mass madness." Photos.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product Review
"In his transmission of the horror of the war, Martin Gilbert has achieved something no historian but he could. There is indeed a relentless force about chronology when it is used as a tool by an historian of the status of Martin Gilbert."--John Keegan, The Sunday Telegraph
"Gilbert's flowing narrative is spiced with anecdotal details culled from diaries, memoirs, and official documents. He is especially skillful at interweaving summaries of military strategy with vignettes of civilian suffering."--Newsweek
"A magisterial work . . . Mr. Gilbert brings the strongest possible credentials to his history of World War II, and . . . shows how the greatest war ever fought reached into every corner of the globe."--Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
"Brings the losses and the horrors of the war home to us more urgently than a more accented account might do."--Gordon A. Craig, The New York Times Book Review
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Second World War: A Complete History (Paperback)
I started this book with high hopes. Martin Gilbert is a famous historian and has done much to educate the world about the holocaust. I also feel the idea of a strictly chronological blow-by-blow history of World War II is a promising premise. However, the book provides little more than a collection of facts arranged chronologically. There is absolutely no historical or political context--the invasion of Poland starts on page 1 and he never backtracks to fill it in. There is very little analysis, usually just a listing of what battles occurred each month and how many tanks, planes, and/or casualties on each side. Instead of forming an arresting narrative, it just becomes a mind-numbing list of events that are never tied together. The format could lend itself to a discussion of global strategy, being organized by time rather than region. However, this is never pursued. The only reason I would look at this book again is if I needed to reference it for facts or dates. A great deal of scholarship was clearly involved in assembling these and, as such, it might be a useful reference, but from such a book I would expect much more. Instead of reading this book, for a truly excellent history of WWII, read Weinberg's "A World at Arms".
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