True Stories of World War II

By Reader's Digest Association

True Stories of World War II

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895770814
• ISBN13: 9780895770813
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 2.71 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

Anyone interested in WWII will love this book. All of the stories in this anthology are book condensations, giving the full flavor and impact of the complete books in a fraction of their length. Some are personal accounts, written by the participants themselves - soldiers, sailors, civilians caught up in the action. Some are on-the-spot reports by war correspondents. Others could not be told until long after war's end and the lifting of censorship. "Selection of the condensations to fit into one volume was a tough editorial job - there were so many to choose from. Finally, the editors settled on these 26 stories." They best reflect the range of a global war, the first by a corresponent in Britain during the 1940 blitz and the last by an American woman in Japan when Emeror Hirohito, speaking over the radio for the first time in history, announced surrender. And they make the most compelling reading, for they are intensely human. Not statistics but individuals stamp World War II so vividly in our memories. Numerous photographs complete the stories.