History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » World War II Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Greatest Story Often Told: Rick Atkinson's Guns at Last Light http://www.historynet.com/the-greatest-story-often-told-rick-atkinsons-guns-at-last-light.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-greatest-story-often-told-rick-atkinsons-guns-at-last-light.htm#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 17:52:27 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13688423 THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT 
The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
By Rick Atkinson. 896 pp.
Henry Holt and Co., 2013. $40.

For almost 15 years—three times longer than World War II lasted—Pulitzer winner Rick Atkinson has toiled with …

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One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
By Alex Kershaw. 448 pp.
Crown, 2012. $28.

War is hell, but Felix Sparks, the central figure in The Liberator…

]]> http://www.historynet.com/review-the-liberator-by-alex-kershaw.htm/feed 1 Mein Kampf: The Sequel http://www.historynet.com/mein-kampf-the-sequel.htm http://www.historynet.com/mein-kampf-the-sequel.htm#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:19:44 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686561 http://www.historynet.com/mein-kampf-the-sequel.htm/feed 1 Review: Ben Macintyre's Double Cross http://www.historynet.com/review-ben-macintyres-double-cross.htm http://www.historynet.com/review-ben-macintyres-double-cross.htm#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:03:31 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686372 Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By Ben Macintyre. 416 pp.
Crown, 2012. $26.

While the Allies were securing their tenuous beachhead at Normandy, the Germans kept the bulk of their forces north of the Seine River, …

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The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
By Iris Chang. 314 pp.
Basic, new edition 2012. $15.99.

This passionate book, recently reissued, is bristling with facts, figures, and the memories of witnesses. They put flesh on …

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John Ford, Samuel Fuller,
George Stevens
From Hollywood to Nuremberg
The Museum of Jewish Heritage,
New York City. Through October 14, 2012.

The 1945 Nuremberg Trials marked many firsts, including the first time movies were used as …

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By R. Conrad Stein. 146 pp.
Chiron Books, 2011. $7.95.

It's August 1944, and two 12-year-olds growing up in Chicago, Tony Avellini and Dan Zelinski, might have caught sight of a German saboteur. Stoked by ever-present war stories …

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War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure
in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
By Gregory Crouch. 528 pp.
Bantam, 2012. $30.

The Shangri-La-ish dust jacket and breathless subtitle of China's Wings make it seem like a …

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A Writer at War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941–1945
Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova (2006)
"Grossman was a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. His long-banned doorstop of a …

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