World War II Desert War eBook Stephen W Sears
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The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and America's George Patton. Here, from award-winning military historian Stephen W. Sears, is the dramatic story of the generals, politicians, and soldiers who changed the course of the war.
World War II Desert War eBook Stephen W Sears
This book is actually a re-print of "Desert War in North Africa", part of a series of juvenile histories written in the 1960s. The original publication used a streamlined narrative style that could appeal more easily to young readers, supplemented by a magnificent series of battle maps, historical photographs and beautiful watercolors painted by eye-witnesses. The battle maps showed the strategic movement of the armies, and really brought out the sophistication of the action. This balanced well with the stripped-down, crackingly fast-paced narrative. The pictures and especially the watercolors then brought home the personal experience of the North African war. Short personal vignettes of wartime experiences, often paired with these pictures and watercolors, brought the war to life for the reader.Unfortunately, this printing does not include any of the maps, pictures or watercolors. Considering how tightly these were integrated into the book's narrative, this printing feels like half of the book is missing. What the reader is left with is a simplified narrative of the North Africa campaigns, with a lot of context missing.
I first read the original "Desert War in North Africa" in junior high school, after picking up a clearance copy from my local school library. The hardcover was already in tatters, and the pages were loose and threatening to fall out. The book's condition hasn't gotten any better in the decades since. But I still pull it out every few years, and spend a weekend reading through it. Even after reading much more in-depth and detailed books on the North Africa campaign, no other book has better captured the look, the feel and the broad sweeping arc of the Desert War in North Africa.
Get the original hardback book if you can. This edition, while an admirable effort to save an old title, just doesn't stand up to the legacy of the original.
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World War II Desert War eBook Stephen W Sears Reviews
Enjoyable read, had great descriptions of the fighting conditions. Individual stories from both Allied and Axis soldiers inserted throughout the chronological narrative enhanced this well written book.
A broadbrush account, providing an over-view narrative of the accepted accounts of the campaigns in the Western Desert and the Torch Campaign. A useful, introductory read for those totally unfamiliar with these campaigns with its account of the plodding British way of war. Probably useful for putting the war in that theatre into perspective; relatively minor within the context of the war at large at that time.
Interesting and historical a quick read full of facts and things previously unknown to me . Would read another of this authors books
The author's narration combine with personal accounts from soldiers and web links makes this book a good and quick overall read of desert war.
This a broad sweeping brush across the desert landscape and the battles that occurred there. Most of the time the author looked at war from at least 10,000 ft above the sand. Occasional he would quote extensively from a work written some who serve in North Africa.
A quick read for all and might serve as a supplemental text in a history course in high school or college.
If you’re not familiar with the war in North Africa, this is a good, readable introduction. If you’re familiar with that campaign, this book will not add to your knowledge or understanding at all.
A extremely well analyzed and written story of the desert war, of Rommel, Churchill and various allied commanders. Of particular interest is operation Thorn, the capture of North-Africa, American diplomacy and the resistance of Petain loyal French troops, leading to hundreds of American and French dead. The story makes clear that Rommel might have succeeded if better supported and less obstructed by his Fuhrer! A must read for those who always wondered what actually went on there in the background, giving the real facts of the many propaganda like movies of the fifties and sixties.
This book is actually a re-print of "Desert War in North Africa", part of a series of juvenile histories written in the 1960s. The original publication used a streamlined narrative style that could appeal more easily to young readers, supplemented by a magnificent series of battle maps, historical photographs and beautiful watercolors painted by eye-witnesses. The battle maps showed the strategic movement of the armies, and really brought out the sophistication of the action. This balanced well with the stripped-down, crackingly fast-paced narrative. The pictures and especially the watercolors then brought home the personal experience of the North African war. Short personal vignettes of wartime experiences, often paired with these pictures and watercolors, brought the war to life for the reader.
Unfortunately, this printing does not include any of the maps, pictures or watercolors. Considering how tightly these were integrated into the book's narrative, this printing feels like half of the book is missing. What the reader is left with is a simplified narrative of the North Africa campaigns, with a lot of context missing.
I first read the original "Desert War in North Africa" in junior high school, after picking up a clearance copy from my local school library. The hardcover was already in tatters, and the pages were loose and threatening to fall out. The book's condition hasn't gotten any better in the decades since. But I still pull it out every few years, and spend a weekend reading through it. Even after reading much more in-depth and detailed books on the North Africa campaign, no other book has better captured the look, the feel and the broad sweeping arc of the Desert War in North Africa.
Get the original hardback book if you can. This edition, while an admirable effort to save an old title, just doesn't stand up to the legacy of the original.
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