A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (1994)

WONDERFUL book by a scholar with the broadest grasp of the conflict, its origins and implications in all their political and global dimensions. Highly recommended, intelligent book. For the reader prepared to work to understand the conflict in its myriad complexities. ( )

4252 A World at Arms A Global History of World War II, by Gerhard L. Weinberg (read 31 Dec 2006) This is a masterful account of World War II, the best I think I have ever read. I read Robert Leckie's Delivered from Evil on Feb 4, 1989 and greatly enjoyed it, but this book is better researched and I believe is better, though with 920 pages of text, a 23 page bibliographic essay, 75 pages of notes, and 31 pages of maps, it should be. Though I lived thru the war and followed its course intently, and have read much on it since, I felt I was not merely retreading familiar ground but learning much I never knew or had forgotten. His opinions are convincingly supported and I think he is right in most of them, maybe in all of them. Certainly he has done more research than most writers on the most important event in our lifetime. ( )

Pretty definitive, pretty huge. ( )