The Second World War: A Military History
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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, Asia, and the Mediterranean.
A definitive single-volume military history of World War II, Gordon Corrigan's The Second World War reveals the vastly diverse ways in which each campaign was waged against very different enemies who rarely, if ever, coordinated their efforts. Corrigan, who has developed a scholarly reputation of challenging long-held historical assumptions, examines the agendas of the warring nations and offers fresh and vivid interpretations of how the war was fought and how it was won. In particular, the author dispels myths regarding the effectiveness of the American and British war efforts and brings the contributions of the Russian armies to the forefront.
Vast in vision and epic in scope, The Second World War will change forever the way we think about the titanic conflicts that decided the shape of the modern world.
Gordon Corrigan
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author is a former British Army officer. He has a quick whit that gave this book a fun and interesting character. Don’t overlook the little asterisks that are sprinkled throughout the book. These contain a treasure trove of fun, interesting facts about the topic. My favorite was his critique of the Russian military who, in the months before Germany’s invasion, were doing little training, but were required to learn folk dancing. The little asterisk takes you to a funny story about how a similar thing occurred in the British army when he was in it. He recounts how in the 1960s, an urge to engage in Scottish folk dance ran through the British officer corps “like dysentery”, resulting in mandatory attendance by the officers. He says he only survived these long evenings by heckling his fellow officers and drinking large quantities of alcohol.