The Greatest War - Volume III: The Battle of the Bulge to Hiroshima

by Gerald Astor

Book Overview

In the third volume of this series that closely examines the major campaigns of World War II, the author highlights the exploits of General MacArthur in the Phillipines and General Patton in Germany,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446610488
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 1.3" x 3.7"

Customer Reviews

Third book in series rounds out WW2

This is the third book in Gerald Astor's WW2 series covering American servicemen in all theaters, for the duration of the war. Now that I've finished the series, I can more completely comment on the books. While I enjoyed them, I must comment that there's as much left out (in terms of types of fighting, etc.) as there is included in the books.For one thing, there's almost nothing on the Navy's war with the Japanese, and nothing at all on the War in the Atlantic. Combat in Italy seemingly stopped with the capture of Rome, the war in Burma is only briefly mentioned, and parts of the campaign in the Pacific are completely ignored. I will grant, however, that what's here is well-presented, with a thoughtful commentary hanging it together so that it makes sense.I will comment on one further annoying thing. There are several places here where he quotes from books or authors that are reasonably well-known. For instance, two of the best known Marines-turned-military historians, Richard Wheeler and E.B.Sledge, get quoted in this book. Now I've read both men's accounts of their time in the war, so I don't need them rehashed, and I would have preferred something about someone I didn't have access to myself.That being said, this is still a good book, and well worth the time invested reading it.