The Second World War A Military History
ISBN: 9780312577094 | 0312577095
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date: 11/8/2011
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So many books on World War II, told from every angle (see titles by Neill Lochery, Caroline Moorehead, and Stanley Weintraub, below). Here's that rare overview, which could be useful wherever one can buy only a limited number of titles on this subject. A member of the British Commission for Military History, Corrigan (Mud, Blood and Poppycock) should know his stuff.
A landmark reassessment of World War II that reconsiders the immense six-year conflict under the lens of the many separate campaigns fought in Europe, ... MORE
A landmark reassessment of World War II that reconsiders the immense six-year conflict under the lens of the many separate campaigns fought in Europe, ... MORE
"Corrigan offers a superlative big picture. In particular, the author masterfully presents the military buildup in Japan, the rise of extreme nationalism, emperor worship and Japanese sense of racial superiority as factors feeding the smoldering resentment against the Western powers that unleashed itself in horrific treatment of prisoners and civilians during the war. Engaging reading down to the footnotes."—KIRKUS REVIEWS, November 8, 2011
GORDON CORRIGAN is a member of the British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is the author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock and Blood, Sweat and Arrogance.
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