Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War, Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint, R. John Pritchard, Penguin Books, Limited, 1995, 0140249095, 9780140249095, . .
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Total War The Causes and Courses of the Second World War. volume I. The Western hemisphere, Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint, John R. Prithard, 1989, History, 644 pages. . Originally published under the title Total War, this acclaimed analysis of the causes and courses of World War II has stood the tests of time and criticism. The first part deals with the war in the West, and the second covers the war in the Pacific Theatre. The three highly regarded authors of this classic resource create a fluid narrative that provides vivid portraits of the war leaders and an unflinching exploration of the devastation and hardship of this major world conflict.
Peter Calvocoressi has written several books on international affairs and recent history. He has served on the councils of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Amnesty International and on the United Nations Sub-Commitee on Discrimination and Minorities. He lives in England.
I found the previous review of this book uncharitable. True, no one who buys it should expect a page-turner. The book is dense, very well written, and delves more carefully into causes and effects of the war than most popular history. Calvocalressi is one of the most noted WWII historians, and he gives detailed accounts of the events leading up to the war, its military aspects, the home-front political concerns of the combatents, and the motivations of the actors (his sketches of Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Stalin are both unforgettable and essential to understanding the shape the war took.) The book is a marvel of compression--Calvocalressi fits into 600 pages an amazing amount of data, and I found that when I turned to other, more expanded accounts of incidents that took a paragraph or two to outline in this book, there was little of importance that Calvocalressi had left out. I confess I haven't read the second half of the book, about the war in the East, because that is not my area of interest, but for a compressed and intelligent account of the war in Europe, Calvocalressi is an excellent starting point.
Enormous interlocking frameworks of history, culture, domestic and international politics, and economics are slowly constructed, with the events of war put into this enormous structure. The aim is to explain why the events of World War II happened; the actual details of individual battles and other events are glossed over. The scope of the analysis presented is vast. The more specific knowledge the reader has on the details of the war, and of history and politics, the more they can appreciate the act of tying everything together. Some sections of the first half of the book are difficult to follow without prior detailed knowledge.
The authors attempt to be as impartial as possible, heaping praise and scorn on all sides of the conflicts. They take pains to correct what they consider to be myths regarding the history of the war. In one way, however, the authors do have a specific viewpoint; they are clearly writing from a British perspective. As an American reader, I would have preferred much less detailed information about Britain, and perhaps more information about the United States, which is scarcely mentioned.
This was by far the longest book I've ever read, with 1224 pages of regular text, divided into two 600 page halves on the war in Europe and Asia, respectively. Peter Calvocoressi, the author of the first 600 pages regarding the war in Europe, has a rather dense and archaic writing style that I found unnecessarily difficult to comprehend. This is compounded by his vocabulary peppered with words not in common use, for example "Hitler was a Manichee, as well as a chiliast".
The second half of the book on the Asian conflict, written by the other two authors, is much easier to read. The authors are much more successful in creating a coherency to all the information presented, making it much easier to digest. The last 200 (!) pages of the book are excellent, making the book definitely worth finishing.
The Second World War is without a doubt the most intricate subject to write about due to the enormity and complexities of the war itself; it would be simpler to talk about those not involved in the war rather than vice-versa. The sheer number of countries, people, and military machinery are so overwhelmingly immeasurable that it stuns the imagination. "The Penguin History of the Second World War" is a remarkable achievement in the genre of World War II literature. It will undoubtedly occupy a well-deserved niche on the bookshelf of both amateur and professional World War II historians. This book is not for the casual reader. It is however, an excellent choice for the serious amateur historian or student of World War II history who wants to gain an above average overview of this pivotal episode in world history. Even professional historians will find the book enlightening. Some readers may find the Penguin history intimidating and/or even excessive with its 1,344 pages, but publishing a book on the Second World War is so difficult on so many different levels that it should be considered a tremendous achievement on the part of Calvocoressi, Wint and Pritchard. Readers would have to purchase a twenty-four volume encyclopedia on World War II to gain the knowledge and insights that readers will get from Calvocoressi, Wint and Pritchard condensed, single volume book.
The Penguin history is presented in chronological order of events that trace the origins of World War II back to well before the First World War. The authors look at aspects of the war that range from domestic and international political policies and issues to the effects of war on the citizens in the societies of the warring factions.Read more ›
A fully satisfactory one-volume history of the Second World War may be an impossibility, but this tome doesn't come close. Its worst faults are its weird misallocations of space (pages and pages on British social developments and Japanese politics in the 1930's, for example, but only a single chapter on the Russian front) and its very summary treatment of most military developments. As a result it is not very useful as a reference. Although the political and diplomatic history of the war is emphasized, the analysis of this area is disjointed and undeveloped, bogged down by details that are never fitted into a framework. Lesser faults are sloppy writing and editing in many places and a preachy and moralistic "PC" tone that misses no opportunity to denigrate the Allies and especially the United States. The only recommendation, and this is only for buffs, is that you may well find some factual nuggets that you were previously unaware of. affairs Africa aircraft alliance allies American Anglo-Japanese Alliance areas armed attack battle Battle of Britain became began bombers bombing Britain British Cabinet campaign cent Chiang Kai-shek Chief China China Incident Chinese Churchill civil civilian command communists Czechoslovakia defeat defence divisions East Asia eastern economic Empire enemy Europe European fighters fighting fleet foreign France French front Gaulle German armies Germany's Hitler Imperial Incident industry invasion Italian Italy Japan Japanese Jews Kuomintang Kwantung Army labour land later leaders less London Luftwaffe Manchukuo Manchuria Manchurian Incident ment military million months Moscow Mussolini naval Navy Nazi North officers operations party peace Poland political post-war Prime Minister railway regarded Reich Resistance Rommel Roosevelt Russian ships side Soviet Staff Stalin tanks territory threat Tientsin tion Tokyo took treaty troops U S S R U-boats United USSR Vichy victory wanted western
Peter Calvocoressi is a figure of distinction in the field of International relations. A former reader in International Relations at the Univeristy of Sussex, he is the author of numerous books including, "Independent Africa and the World," "Fall Out: World War II and the Shaping of Postwar Europe," and "Resilient Europe: A Study of the Years 1870-2000," During the war he worked in British Intelligence at Bletchley Park and from 1946-47 attended the Nuremberg Trials
Originally published under the title 'Total War', this book is a 1000 page plus, thoroughly exhaustive account of WWII. While going into great detail, it reads more like a text book than a non-fiction text and lacks the 'human' element. Personally, I prefer the works of writers such as Stephen E. Ambrose and Antony Beevor, who write more from the soldiers perspective. Recommended for diehards only.
The division into two parts, each with different authors, covering the European/Atlantic and Far Eastern/Pacific wars works well I think. It allows for different perspectives within the one volume and for a high level of expertise to be maintained over a very wide field - too wide for a single author.
I'm about half way through the Japanese section at the moment and its helpful to see how separate the origins and development of the Pacific war were. In retrospect it seems to be only the equal involvement of the United States in both theatres that makes us think of it as a single World War. Guy Wint, the author of the second part, leans a little deliberately to the Japanese viewpoint sometimes and I felt the deep darkness of pre-1945 Japan's behaviour at places like Nanking and Manila didn't come through clearly enough.
While clearly well researched, the book suffers from its organization into discrete topics. While this is probably very useful for someone who wishes to find out more about a specific topic like, say, the Resistance to Nazi occupation, and can just read the chapter devoted to that topic, it makes it hard to read the book as a book as there is no coherent timeline. Each chapter starts at its own beginning and ends with the conclusion of the war or that particular topic so that with every new chap...more While clearly well researched, the book suffers from its organization into discrete topics. While this is probably very useful for someone who wishes to find out more about a specific topic like, say, the Resistance to Nazi occupation, and can just read the chapter devoted to that topic, it makes it hard to read the book as a book as there is no coherent timeline. Each chapter starts at its own beginning and ends with the conclusion of the war or that particular topic so that with every new chapter, your timeline gets reset and events already discussed are repeated from the viewpoint of the new chapter’s topic. Also, the bulk of the book concerns the political, economic and societal effects of the war and the war itself features only as a backdrop.
Chronicles WWII in one massive tome and not just the European side of the war which is what most WWII books cover but the the Pacific theater as well. Is this book a suitable start for someone who wants to learn about the war? Probably not. Because it had to cover the entirety of the war, the book doesn't go too much into details. This is more suitable for someone who already knows the general history of the conflict but needs a refresher course.
For the millions who lived through World War II on home or battle front, the realization alone that more than fifty years have passed since the war's beginningis startling, but to the postwar generation, this century's great war has remained singularly remote. TOTAL WAR is its first comprehensive history. Drawing on remembrance, personal experience, and a distinquished record of scholarship and journalism, the authors have skillfully sifted a massive body of accumulated fact and conflicting interpretation to sketch the background to the war, describe its military progress and political momentum, and examine its often surprising consequences. It was a war of civilians, of ideology, and of technology, as much as of military strength or economic resources, and important sections of TOTAL WAR deal with the international politics that shaped basic war aims, with the human drama that grew out of personal commitments to resistance or collaboration, and with the broader social and scientific changes which were wrought by or in spite of the war.
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