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World War II
EXCELLENT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!
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253 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1977
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November 12, 2020
I was bought this book as a boy by my grandfather in 1979. I was fascinated by war. TV was full of romanticised films made in the decades and toys for boys were pretty much soldiers or model kits.
This book starts off well but then suffers as it does not flow in chronological order. It describes the European and African theatre of war until early 1943 then reverts to December 1941 with the events of Pearl Harbour. After taking us to events in Asia to 1942 it reverts back to Europe and takes us to the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Bizarrely it finishes on the fall of Italy. Then it starts again with the Asian conflict in 1943 up to the Atomic bombs dropped in Japan and surrender in September 1945. But even this contains a chapter on the war in China and takes us back to 1937!
The book is useful as a reference book giving an overview of the war but is an unsatisfying read.
This book starts off well but then suffers as it does not flow in chronological order. It describes the European and African theatre of war until early 1943 then reverts to December 1941 with the events of Pearl Harbour. After taking us to events in Asia to 1942 it reverts back to Europe and takes us to the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Bizarrely it finishes on the fall of Italy. Then it starts again with the Asian conflict in 1943 up to the Atomic bombs dropped in Japan and surrender in September 1945. But even this contains a chapter on the war in China and takes us back to 1937!
The book is useful as a reference book giving an overview of the war but is an unsatisfying read.
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