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Judt writes with enormous authority." -The Wall Street Journal. "Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history." -The Boston Globe. Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and ...
recommended by James Holland. Historian and novelist James Holland talks us through some of his favourite memoirs and novels about the Second World War and explains his lifelong fascination with the global conflict. 1 First Light by Geoffrey Wellum. 2 Near East by Cecil Beaton. 3 Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Keith Lowe. Keith Lowe is an author and historian. He has written two works of fiction and two critically acclaimed books about World War Two and its aftermath. Inferno is about the firebombing of Hamburg by British and US air forces in 1943, which destroyed most of the city and resulted in some 40,000 civilian deaths.
Jun 11, 2024 · The Victors. By Stephen E. Ambrose. From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers comes this “riveting” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) book from a “superb historian” (New York Times Book Review) that chronicles the war in Europe from D-Day to Germany’s surrender in 1945. From the experiences of individual soldiers to ...
- Orrin Grey
- Myth: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Knew About Pearl Harbor in Advance
- Myth: Hitler Was Solely to Blame For The German Defeat in World War II
- Myth: There Was A Turning Point in World War II
The big one and the one I get asked all the time and the one I’ve spent most of my career debunking is the notion that FDR knew about Pearl Harborin advance and let it happen anyway, and is responsible for the death of nearly 2,500 American servicemen in cold blood. I label it the biggest myth of World War II. People are willing to entertain the cr...
This notion is in 90% of the books written on the war in Europe, which is that every mistake, every wrong turn the Germans made, every stupid offensive they decided to launch, was Hitler’s idea. I’d love to blame Hitler for everything; he certainly started World War II, and he’s the author of the Holocaust, there’s no doubt about that. But he certa...
If you read histories of World War II, authors come up with dozens of turning points. In the Pacific, people say Midway in June of 1942, when U.S. forces sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers. A lot of people still say Stalingrad. The Germans were deep inside the Soviet Union when the Soviets launched a counter offensive in November of 1942 and cut ...
WWII Reads: Memoirs. Two members of the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy select their four "can't miss" WWII memoirs. We have always enjoyed reading a good war memoir. The memoir genre is uniquely suited to pulling in the reader and giving them a first-person view of the author’s experiences. Memoirs immerse us in small pieces of ...
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story. by. George Wilson. 4.23 avg rating — 3,767 ratings. score: 626, and 7 people voted. Want to Read saving….
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