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Indlæser... Eyewitness to History: World War IIaf Stephen W. Sears
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. So, an award-winning American Civil War historian collects a number of eyewitness accounts from American participants in World War II. Emphasis is on individual, personal accounts, ranging from high-ranking generals and admirals, down through the ranks, all the way to one civilian assigned to a military unit as an interpreter/investigator. Both European and Pacific theaters are well covered, and all military branches. Given the military thread, one might be tempted to compare this to a box of chocolates, where you really never know what you're going to find next. Unfortunately, the level of word craft fluctuates enough in quality from one eyewitness to the next, that this may be better described as a community bake sale, where you not only get sweet and savory morsels worth your attention, but also a few rather bland and slightly burnt offerings. Remarkably, the least coherent reporting came from a military newspaper reporter. Others performed better, if a bit stiff and dry at times, especially officers, who seemed to shift too closely at times toward old habits of submitting official reports, instead of just telling their stories. All in all, this is a decent addendum to broader histories on the subject. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
". . . the greatest war of all time told as it is best told - by the people who lived it." - The Washington PostAll first-person accounts of great events have their own fascination, but the editors of American Heritage have discovered that people writing about World War II seem to tell their own story with particular passion and eloquence. That is one reason American Heritage has published so many of them - and why noted military historian Stephen W. Sears has selected the most compelling.The result of his search is a uniquely moving and valuable anthology - a series of personal histories that, marshaled together, become an intimate history of the Second World War.Here is Edward Beach, the highly decorated submarine skipper and author of Run Silent, Run Deep, recalling what it was like to be sent into hostile waters with torpedoes that didn't work; Charles Cawthon recounts the landing at Normandy Beach in a restrained and poetic narrative whose quiet humor does nothing to blunt the savagery of the experience; General James Gavin tells of the jump into Sicily and of a battle fought that never should have been fought; Hughes Rudd watched the war from overhead in a flimsy spotter plane, his "Maytag Messerschmitt; and William Manchester remembers a particularly audacious and hilarious scam that a reckless Marine buddy played on the entire army.Some of the stories are heartbreaking, some amusing, some horrifying, but every one of them - whether told by the women who hammered fighter planes together or the men who flew them - glows with hard-won experience. No library descriptions found. |
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