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Der Zweite Weltkrieg
Presents a selection of images in year-by-year chapters, covering every theater of operations of Second World War.
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First published January 1, 2000
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Richard Holmes
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Edward Richard Holmes was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois, and Reading Universities, and carried out his doctoral research on the French army of the Second Empire. For many years he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
A celebrated military historian, Holmes is the author of the best-selling and widely acclaimed Tommy and Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket. His dozen other books include Dusty Warriors, Sahib, The Western Front, The Little Field Marshal: Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of Northern France and Flanders (also published by Pimlico).
He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including ‘War Walks’, ‘The Western Front’ and ‘Battlefields’, and is famous for his hugely successful series ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ and ‘Rebels and Redcoats’.
See this thread for more information.
Edward Richard Holmes was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois, and Reading Universities, and carried out his doctoral research on the French army of the Second Empire. For many years he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
A celebrated military historian, Holmes is the author of the best-selling and widely acclaimed Tommy and Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket. His dozen other books include Dusty Warriors, Sahib, The Western Front, The Little Field Marshal: Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of Northern France and Flanders (also published by Pimlico).
He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including ‘War Walks’, ‘The Western Front’ and ‘Battlefields’, and is famous for his hugely successful series ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ and ‘Rebels and Redcoats’.
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September 1, 2018
This book does a great job of providing both famous and lesser-known photographs of the war. I enjoyed its sampling of rarer photos I had never seen alongside ubiquitous ones. It also did a good job of shedding light on more out-of-the-way war locations, such as Burma and the Far East.
Unfortunately, the writing was pretty rough and contained many glaring errors. Overuse of some descriptive phrases became tiresome, and photo captions sometimes made very little sense.
Overall, nice as a pictorial historical record, but little use for more detailed analysis of the war.
Unfortunately, the writing was pretty rough and contained many glaring errors. Overuse of some descriptive phrases became tiresome, and photo captions sometimes made very little sense.
Overall, nice as a pictorial historical record, but little use for more detailed analysis of the war.
August 23, 2020
As this book is full of photographs from the Imperial War Museum one is lead to believe World War II was won solely by the Brits.
November 2, 2024
This book is amazing down to the last page; full of photos that are presented with well-written captions. The great majority of the photos are from the archives of London's Imperial War Museum taken by a variety of photographers). The photos are arranged in the chronological order, from 1939 to 1945, which has the benefit of giving coherence to the reader.
As you all know, the origins of the Second World War were rooted in the WWI flared up from the ashes of it. Humiliating German at the Versailles Treaty, economic crisis, nationalism, militarism and anti-Semitism all helped to bring the Nazis to power. These all factors helped Hitler to be appointed as the Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg in January 1933, after burning the Reichstag (parliament), which he blamed on Bolsheviks and other anti-social elements. On the Night of the Long Knives, June 30, 1934, Hitler purged the party and when Hindenburg died, he combined the offices of President and Chancellor in himself as Führer. The WWII was the bloodiest conflict in history, even now we cannot be sure of its real human cost.
As you all know, the origins of the Second World War were rooted in the WWI flared up from the ashes of it. Humiliating German at the Versailles Treaty, economic crisis, nationalism, militarism and anti-Semitism all helped to bring the Nazis to power. These all factors helped Hitler to be appointed as the Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg in January 1933, after burning the Reichstag (parliament), which he blamed on Bolsheviks and other anti-social elements. On the Night of the Long Knives, June 30, 1934, Hitler purged the party and when Hindenburg died, he combined the offices of President and Chancellor in himself as Führer. The WWII was the bloodiest conflict in history, even now we cannot be sure of its real human cost.
March 26, 2013
The photography is of course fascinating, but the writing is rough. I found typos and misspellings on nearly every page, and the basic construction of most of the sentences was problematic at best; I often had to read captions two or three times to understand what was being communicated. If you're looking for photographic documentation, you're in the right place, but if you want a coherent explanation of what you're looking at, you'll be disappointed. Keep another reference close at hand to look things up.
February 17, 2026
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