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Chronology Of World War II
(Inside dust jacket):
From the German invasion of Poland on Friday 1, 1939, through six years of bitter global conflict to the capitulation of Japan - every day of the dramatic story of World War II is covered in this specially compiled and carefully researched chronology. Here is an authoritative, compelling account, not just of the war, but of the war years.
From the German invasion of Poland on Friday 1, 1939, through six years of bitter global conflict to the capitulation of Japan - every day of the dramatic story of World War II is covered in this specially compiled and carefully researched chronology. Here is an authoritative, compelling account, not just of the war, but of the war years.
200 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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January 13, 2013
I first got this book after reading Rommel As Military Commander made me realize that I needed a book with comprehensive maps of the various battlegrounds of World War II to keep up with the military history I was reading at the time. I was hoping also that a daily chronology would help keep things in context as I got lost in a sea of details. This book really didn't serve either purpose very well, and it has sat largely unconsulted as a reference since I first went through it.
As far as the maps, it does give some, but they are often no more detailed than what one finds in books on specific campaigns. A good example of the inadequacy of these maps is on page 114, which shows "The Tunisian Campaign," among the entries for November, 1942. On the facing page is the entry "NORTH AFRICA: Rommel evacuates Agedabia." The map, which only shows the Western part of Libya around Tripli doesn't include Agedabia, several hundred kilometers to the East, but neither the map nor the entry explain this, leaving the reader baffled as to where the action in the entry is taking place or why the map appears on this page.
The book also doesn't help much with context, because it is itself a "sea of details" with very little explanation. Certain key battles, individuals, and events are given cursory essays, but most of the entries are as curt and uninformative as the example above, and with an entry for every single day, it becomes difficult to tell which events are significant, or how they relate to the broader narrative. As far as references on the war go, this one is mostly pretty (lots of dramatic combat photos in black and white), but not especially informative.
As far as the maps, it does give some, but they are often no more detailed than what one finds in books on specific campaigns. A good example of the inadequacy of these maps is on page 114, which shows "The Tunisian Campaign," among the entries for November, 1942. On the facing page is the entry "NORTH AFRICA: Rommel evacuates Agedabia." The map, which only shows the Western part of Libya around Tripli doesn't include Agedabia, several hundred kilometers to the East, but neither the map nor the entry explain this, leaving the reader baffled as to where the action in the entry is taking place or why the map appears on this page.
The book also doesn't help much with context, because it is itself a "sea of details" with very little explanation. Certain key battles, individuals, and events are given cursory essays, but most of the entries are as curt and uninformative as the example above, and with an entry for every single day, it becomes difficult to tell which events are significant, or how they relate to the broader narrative. As far as references on the war go, this one is mostly pretty (lots of dramatic combat photos in black and white), but not especially informative.
March 22, 2014
Great for an autistic child to help him study history and organize his memory
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