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    <body><![CDATA[Jeff Shaara provides another great installment into very entertaining and mostly accurate historical fiction.  I always appreciate his ability to fill out the personalities of well known historical figures, as well as giving credit to little known or appreciated figures.  All aspects of World War II...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16555409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fairly large book, I nonetheless devoured it in two days and for the first time understand at least something about the command on both sides of the lines and the experience of the tank battalions in North Africa and eventually the invasion of Sicily and Italy, not to mention the importance of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39407314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>The prolific Jeff Shaara, son of late novelist Michael Shaara, has published sprawling fictionalized accounts of the American Revolution (a trilogy), World War I, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. <em>Gods and Generals</em> (1996) and <em>The Last Full Measure</em> (1998) were, respectively, the prequel and sequel ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45461301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeff Shaara made an admirable attempt to complete his father's Civil War series, but his sequels, valuable though they are, could not hold a candle to The Killer Angel. Well, Jeff has done a lot of writing since then, and his WWII series, if The Rising Tide is a fair indication, matches the work of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61691589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great historical fiction. Written very similar to his WW1 book. The soldiers talk was really funny at times. I loved his rendition of Churchill, especially.  First in a trilogy on WW2. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Gods and Generals--I even read a biography of Stonewall Jackson because Shaara made him so interesting.  The civil war really came to life for me.  But this one was only one step up from a history textbook.  Most of the book takes place in board rooms with people discussing plans, who should...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39190731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do love Jeff Shaara when it comes to historical fiction, although I admit I love some of his books more than others.  Rising Tide follows different key players in WWII as the US enters the war in northern Africa and goes into Sicily.  It shows Eisenhower as having to delicately balance directing t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61394326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the Shaaras' Civil War trilogy and was excited to get into the WWII books, but I was disappointed in this, the first of the series. If I knew more about the North Africa theater of the war it might have been a little more compelling, but it was really just boring. The characterization of Gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80396088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!  I loved this book. <br/><br/>Honestly, I didn't know much about the African campaign and even though this book is Historical Fiction, I feel like I actually know something now.  I kept running to the computer to check the &quot;facts&quot; of this book and the facts are accurate, it's only t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60610031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A &quot;fly on the wall&quot; non-fiction story of the African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns spanning 1942-1943. The first book of Shaara's WWII Trilogy.<br/><br/>While it is non-fiction, I am sure that at times the fly is telling us what it thinks it saw and/or heard.<br/><br/>Non-the-less, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63058986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A historical novel covering the African campaign in WW II. <br/><br/>Having read Shaara's book taking place in the American War Between the States and in WW I, I was eager to experience his writing about WW II. <br/><br/>His approach is to focus on a few characters, the very high and the very lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36822327">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read any of Shaara's books, you know that they are all essentially the same except that they cover different wars. This one is no exception. The writing style, with lots, of commas, all over, is back in full force and the basic approach is identical - he tells the stories of these wars fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22215558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The introduction to this book contained just about the amount of historical overview about the war that I had been looking for.  Sort of putting things in perspective.  The first chapter was an abrupt and unwelcome change.  I almost said forget it.  After the smooth flowing, cohesive introduction, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13453569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeff Shaara, son of the late Mike Shaara, hit the literary scene running with his well received &quot;Gods and Generals&quot; (1996) and &quot;Last Full Measure.&quot; (1998) These books, with his father's &quot;The Killer Angels&quot; comprised a wonderful Civil War Trilogy.<br/><br/>&quot;The Ri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17949989">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy Jeff Shaara and his style of writing.<br/>My sense of adventure was awaken again as I read about the Desert Fox,<br/>Field Marshall Rommell and about General Patton, along w/the Tank duels in the desert.<br/><br/>Good overview and look at main characters involved w/American entering the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56187773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it. It puts a personality on WWII... From the inside of a tank in Africa to the strategy session with Ike and the Allied brass. Putting a personal touch on WWII like the author has done so many times before with other wars. Painting Patton as a human rather than the prototype war machine. Putt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25632228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shaara has done it again - great read, very informative, etc.  This book is about the beginning of America's involvement in WWII up to the invasion of Sicily.  I know very little (or should I say, I don't remember) about this time in history, so I was on the edge of my seat for most of the book.  Of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40964379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just got this in the mail from a recent Amazon binge.  Part 1 of a WW 2 trilogy.  Should be great.  Shaara's really gotten the hang of this by now, having done 2/3 of the Civil War trilogy begun by his father in The Killer Angels, a trilogy of American Revolution books, a book on the Mexican War, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55354570">more...</a>]]></body>
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