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The Causes and Courses of the Second World War, Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint, R Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War, Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint, R. John Pritchard, Penguin Books, Limited, 1995, 0140249095, 9780140249095, . DOWNLOAD HERE Ruin and resurgence, 1939-1965 , Robert Case Mowat, 1966, , 406 pages. The Second World War A Short History, R. A. C. Parker, Sep 27, 2001, History, 330 pages. The Second World War is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the war. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and its far-reaching .... Kim , Rudyard Kipling, 1994, Fiction, 247 pages. Kim (1901) is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English .... World War Bind Up , Robin Cross, Sep 1, 1999, , 192 pages. Japan's New Order in East Asia Its Rise and Fall, 1937-45, Francis Clifford Jones, 1954, Asia, 498 pages. 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The memoirs of Cordell Hull, Volume 2 , Cordell Hull, Andrew Henry Thomas Berding, 1948, , 1804 pages. 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.
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