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  <title><![CDATA[Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[World War II is a difficult and complex conflict to explain. Each nation had its reason for fighting. Each theater of war  demanded troops and resources that could not be used elsewhere. Every decision made by leaders impacted the war in unexpected ways. John Ellis is not bothered by all this comple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40397527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book demonstrates two under-examined sides of World War 2. It demonstrates how the Axis powers went to war woefully unprepared for an extended conflict. More importantly it highlights how they completely under-estimated the economic might of the United States and to a less degree the Soviet Uni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10902029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Premise that overwhelming material force by the United States was the primary reason that the Allies won WWII. A bit too much focus on material, while having a tendency to downplay any acomplishments of American Generals, Patton in particular. Good for graphs on material production.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Industrial Production made up for any number of general incompentance.]]></body>
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