
The Second World War: A Complete History
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Narrated by:
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Bernard Mayes
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By:
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Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, offers a complete history of World War II.
It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-Day - August 14, 1945 - it had involved every major power, and had become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be - in both human terms and material resources - the costliest war in history, taking the lives of forty-six million people.
With unparalleled scholarship and breadth of vision, Gilbert weaves together all of the war’s aspects - the political, the military, the diplomatic, and, not least, the civilian - charting an almost day-by-day account of the terrible progress of the war’s juggernaut of death and destruction. Through it all, his aim is to show what happened, not from the point of view of any one of the warring nations but from a global perspective. The result is the first total history of this global war, a work that is both a treasure trove of information and a gripping dramatic narrative.
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occasional detailed information
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On the plus side writing and pacing are great if you can understand them.
the audio quality is horrible
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great and comprehensive
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Great for what it sought to be
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Boychik
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Ok but lacking
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This is almost literally a day by day account of certain aspects of the war. It's told from an English perspective which I didn't expect and certain nation's appear as no more than statistics. The narrator sounds like he is sitting in a tin can but it didn't distract me. He also misses a lot of F sounds so I always thought it was cutting out.
The author more or less presents the reader with statistical figures and brief stories, but there is almost no analysis which I found both good and bad. I wasn't told what to think, but often a little more information would have gone a long way. I realized how little I knew of the war especially in terms of what happened when and in this it was extremely valuable.
In many ways I felt that this could have been written by a some what out dated A.I. The many atrocities are horrible for what they are, not by any addition of the writer. Good and bad both get glossed over and when the book is over, I felt numb and a bit sick of humanity. But now I have good ideas of where to dig deeper.
Good Introduction and Overview, Dry as Toast
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Very Detailed
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Good story horrible audio
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