History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » World War II Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 26 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 MHQ Reviews: Walter Cronkite's World War II Daze http://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-walter-cronkites-world-war-ii-daze.htm http://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-walter-cronkites-world-war-ii-daze.htm#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 12:17:10 +0000 ehoward http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685516 http://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-walter-cronkites-world-war-ii-daze.htm/feed 3 Mincemeat: An Author Has His Say http://www.historynet.com/mincemeat-an-author-has-his-say.htm http://www.historynet.com/mincemeat-an-author-has-his-say.htm#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:50:15 +0000 Robert M. Citino http://www.historynet.com/?p=13682709 http://www.historynet.com/mincemeat-an-author-has-his-say.htm/feed 0 Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/dresden-tuesday-february-13-1945-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/dresden-tuesday-february-13-1945-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:15:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Richard R. Muller
By Frederick Taylor
Harper Collins, New York, 2004

On the night of February 13, 1945, nearly 800 heavy bombers of Royal Air Force Bomber Command attacked the beautiful old German city of Dresden, known before …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/dresden-tuesday-february-13-1945-book-review.htm/feed 0 The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-siege-of-budapest-100-days-in-world-war-ii-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-siege-of-budapest-100-days-in-world-war-ii-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:15:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Robert Citino
By Krisztin Ungvry
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2005

One of the publishing events of the past year was Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies. It was in every way a work …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-siege-of-budapest-100-days-in-world-war-ii-book-review.htm/feed 2 Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/forgotten-armies-the-fall-of-british-asia-1941-1945-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/forgotten-armies-the-fall-of-british-asia-1941-1945-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:14:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Robert Citino
By Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005

The American view of the war with Japan begins at Pearl Harbor, proceeds through Midway, Guadalcanal and "island-hopping," and ends with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/forgotten-armies-the-fall-of-british-asia-1941-1945-book-review.htm/feed 1 Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940 (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/nineteen-weeks-america-britain-and-the-fateful-summer-of-1940-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/nineteen-weeks-america-britain-and-the-fateful-summer-of-1940-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:14:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Mary Kathryn Barbier
By Norman Moss
Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2004

The spring and summer of 1940 were a tumultuous time in Europe. The so-called Phony War ended, and German troops invaded Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/nineteen-weeks-america-britain-and-the-fateful-summer-of-1940-book-review.htm/feed 1 The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-enola-gay-and-the-smithsonian-institution-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-enola-gay-and-the-smithsonian-institution-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:14:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Conrad Crane
By Charles T. O'Reilly and William A. Rooney
McFarland, Jefferson, N.C., 2005

This book is as much a piece of history as a work of history. William Rooney and Charles O'Reilly are a former advertising executive …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-enola-gay-and-the-smithsonian-institution-book-review.htm/feed 0 Countdown to Victory: The Final European Campaigns of World War II (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/countdown-to-victory-the-final-european-campaigns-of-world-war-ii-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/countdown-to-victory-the-final-european-campaigns-of-world-war-ii-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:14:48 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Robert Citino
By Barry Turner
William Morrow, New York, 2004

It's hard to review Barry Turner's new book without reference to the recent work by Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945. Hastings' anecdotal history of …

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By Marius Broekmeyer
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., 2004

Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, the English translation of Marius Broekmeyer's Dutch original, attempts to portray the human side of the Soviet experience of …

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By Danny S. Parker
Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004

On December 16, 1944, a great force of three German armies (Sixth SS Panzer, Fifth Panzer and Seventh Army)— some 24 divisions in all, including no …

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