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    <body><![CDATA[Usual Keegan, which is not a bad thing, but this seemed a weaker (or perhaps just more hurried?) effort than his other books.  The first couple of chapters are amazing in setting a broad scope for exactly how a terrible event such as the second World War can come about in civilization.  The rest was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67083985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book's a brick but Keegan gives the heavy matter readability with clear prose and the right amount of jargon for non-war buffs such as myself. It is a great, balanced, one-volume description of WWII which provides enough material for the reader to understand the events and gives plenty of ideas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55770124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good one-volume account of World War II, from the legacy of World War I and the rise of Hitler and Stalin, through the major battles and effects on populations, to the aftermath. Keegan starts each section describing strategic dilemmas, from Hitler's decision to invade Russia through Roosevelt/ Trum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65888734">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a 600-page summary of the most important conflict in modern history, so it's bound to disappoint some. Iwo Jima and Okinawa are dealt with in a few pages; The Battle of the Bulge gets five. But the opening chapters describing the factors leading up to the war are an invaluable synopsis. My b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70058200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[World War II from 20,000 feet.<br/><br/>The bulk of popular WWII histories are written with a narrow scope. Memoirs or other you-are-there narratives are the usual means of describing a particular battle or campaign. And no wonder - a full accounting of a single battle would easily overwhelm your ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23634639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent one volume telling of the Second World War, within its historical context, with a heavy emphasis on the strategic questions and decisions faced by the political and military high commands of the five major powers (Keegan doesn't consider Italy a major power). A long-time instruc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16742244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Keegan is a much better historian than this book would suggest. It seemed to me as if it had been thrown together in a weekend to catch the 50th anniversary of WW II celebration and sales bonanza. It is a tired rehash of every bit of conventional wisdom and popular legend about the war, many of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65572117">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely detailed history of WWII that dives into the strategic and tactical moves made during the war, so much so that it is somewhat difficult to read at times.  Does a decent job of explaining how the war came about and that it was basically an extension of WWI.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Severely dry book about some of the most amazing battles, I am torn between reading about Hitler as a man and simply hating him as pure evil.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading this book alongside &quot;The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.&quot; God help me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you´re only going to read one book about WWII, this is it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very solid, if sometimes too dry, overview of World War II.  Focuses on military planning and strategy of the major combatants, with some analysis of the political and social contexts of the war. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this just after &quot;The First World War&quot; by the same author.  Again, the research and detail were unbelievable.  I found the account of the events leading up to the war and the aftermath of the war to be most interesting.  The account of the war itself was the meat of the book, and at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58071992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An intelligent, one-volume look at the Second World War, divided into the early years of the war from 1939 to mid' 1943, when the Allies managed to turn the tide in every theater, and the later years from 1943 to the war's end, and addressing three primary theaters of war; The War in the East, The W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18330057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Superb large picture analysis of WW2 punctuated, as per Keegan's style, with precise detail and jarring anecdotes. Not as mature as WW1 but the chapters on Okinawa and the Eastern Front are as gripping as any history I've read. The Okinawa chapter turned a life long cynic into a believer in the choi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2363146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phew, finally finished this monster!  An amazing overview of WWII.  I like that Keegan shows the strategies, mistakes, and victories from all sides of the conflict.  He also never minimizes the human cost of all of those years of war.  I learned a ton from this book. ]]></body>
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