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Loading... World War Two: A Short History (edition 2013)by Norman Stone
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book contains some interesting perspectives on the war, but is flawed by numerous factual and chronological errors. Part of the problem may be that the entire war is covered in what amounts to an extended essay. While the brevity is a virture, in that it allows the whole war to be summarized in a weekend's reading, the need to condense the narrative leads to errors of omission and simplification that are misleading to the reader attempting to understand this most complicated of struggles. I enjoyed some of the book and was annoyed by some of it. In any event I would not recommend it to the reader who was going to rely upon it as their sole source of information on World War Two. no reviews | add a review
Stone--one of the greatest living historians of the 20th century--provides an unprecedentedly concise, utterly authoritative account of the deadliest war of human history. Over 60 million people perished in World War Two, and the story of how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of the Great War is shocking, tragic, and also completely preventable in hindsight. No library descriptions found. |
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Obviously the period is very quickly looked over, but it gives you a real idea of the sweep of battles and events and reasons behind the happenings of the times. ( )