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I'd like to know everything about world war 2
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Martin Gilbert--The Second World War: A Complete History. This is blow-by-blow account of the war. Very useful in seeing how the war unfolded through time.
John Keegan--The Second World War. More analytical. Nicely complements Gilbert.
William Shirer--The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. The classic account of Hitler's Germany.
John Toland--The Rising Sun. A suburb narrative of Japan in WW2 by a master historian.
Ed Sledge--With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Often considered the best first person account of fighting in the Pacific. A haunting work.
Some more books, randomly listed:
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins--Is Paris Burning?
Evan Thomas--Sea of Thunder
Carlos d'Este--Patton: A Genius for War
David Fischer--The Desert Warrior (on Rommel)
Dwight Eisenhower--Crusade in Europe
Joachim Fest--Hitler
David Glantz--Kursk (and many other studies of the Eastern front)
John Erickson--The Road to Stalingrad; The Road to Berlin
John Toland--The Last 100 Days
Anthony Beevor--Stalingrad; The Fall of Berlin
Anthony Reid--The Devil's Disciples: Hitler and His Inner Circle (a nice companion to Shirer's Rise & Fall)
Gordon Prange--At Dawn We Slept
--Miracle at Midway
Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully--Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Omar Bradley--A Soldier's Story
Erich von Manstein--Lost Victories
Heinz Guderian--Panzer Leader
Douglas Porch--The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater
Cornelius Ryan--The Longest Day
--A Bridge Too Far
Rick Atkinson--An Army at Dawn
Richard Frank--Guadacanal
E.B. Potter--Nimitz
William Manchester--American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur
Charles B. MacDonald--A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge
Bill D. Ross--Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor
Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore Cook--Japan at War: An Oral History
John Ellis--Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War
Richard Overy--Why the Allies Won (thought-provoking)
Gerhard Weinberg--A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
....and many more.
Martin Gilbert--The Second World War: A Complete History. This is blow-by-blow account of the war. Very useful in seeing how the war unfolded through time.
John Keegan--The Second World War. More analytical. Nicely complements Gilbert.
William Shirer--The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. The classic account of Hitler's Germany.
John Toland--The Rising Sun. A suburb narrative of Japan in WW2 by a master historian.
Ed Sledge--With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Often considered the best first person account of fighting in the Pacific. A haunting work.
Some more books, randomly listed:
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins--Is Paris Burning?
Evan Thomas--Sea of Thunder
Carlos d'Este--Patton: A Genius for War
David Fischer--The Desert Warrior (on Rommel)
Dwight Eisenhower--Crusade in Europe
Joachim Fest--Hitler
David Glantz--Kursk (and many other studies of the Eastern front)
John Erickson--The Road to Stalingrad; The Road to Berlin
John Toland--The Last 100 Days
Anthony Beevor--Stalingrad; The Fall of Berlin
Anthony Reid--The Devil's Disciples: Hitler and His Inner Circle (a nice companion to Shirer's Rise & Fall)
Gordon Prange--At Dawn We Slept
--Miracle at Midway
Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully--Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Omar Bradley--A Soldier's Story
Erich von Manstein--Lost Victories
Heinz Guderian--Panzer Leader
Douglas Porch--The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater
Cornelius Ryan--The Longest Day
--A Bridge Too Far
Rick Atkinson--An Army at Dawn
Richard Frank--Guadacanal
E.B. Potter--Nimitz
William Manchester--American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur
Charles B. MacDonald--A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge
Bill D. Ross--Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor
Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore Cook--Japan at War: An Oral History
John Ellis--Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War
Richard Overy--Why the Allies Won (thought-provoking)
Gerhard Weinberg--A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
....and many more.
War of the Worlds book?
JoAnna
In what ways does the war in War of the Worlds compare to other wars in human history?
Answer
It prefigures other wars in human history, because it was written before the First World War. In the years before 1914, Herbert George Wells conceived two kinds of wars in Europe or the world. In addition to "The War of the Worlds," he wrote "When William Came." This last was an account about how Britain and Germany went to war, and Germany won. In the last chapter, the English and the German occupiers together are waiting to greet Kaiser Wilhelm II. So in writing "War of the Worlds," H. G. Wells did not just write science fiction. He saw what was coming.
It prefigures other wars in human history, because it was written before the First World War. In the years before 1914, Herbert George Wells conceived two kinds of wars in Europe or the world. In addition to "The War of the Worlds," he wrote "When William Came." This last was an account about how Britain and Germany went to war, and Germany won. In the last chapter, the English and the German occupiers together are waiting to greet Kaiser Wilhelm II. So in writing "War of the Worlds," H. G. Wells did not just write science fiction. He saw what was coming.
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