Bibliograph

No end save victory, perspectives on World War II, essays by Stephen E. Ambrose ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert Cowley

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No end save victory, perspectives on World War II, essays by Stephen E. Ambrose ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert Cowley

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

No end save victory

Oclc number

44932120

Responsibility statement

essays by Stephen E. Ambrose ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert Cowley

Sub title

perspectives on World War II

Summary

Presents forty-five essays in which various historians offer their perspectives on specific events and different aspects of World War II. Includes maps

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Robert Cowley -- I. The German Breakout: 1939-1941. Poland 1939 / Caleb Carr. "Almost a Miracle" / Robert A. Doughty. "Bloody Marvelous" / Anthony Bailey. After Dunkirk / Bruce I. Gudmundsson. "Undaunted by Odds" / William Manchester. Hitler's D Day / David Shears. Could Sea Lion Have Worked? / David Shears. Barbarossa / Williamson Murray -- II. The Great East Asia War. The Might-Have-Beens of Pearl Harbor / Eliot A. Cohen. Tokyo, December 8, 1941 / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. The Other Pearl Harbor / D. Clayton James. King of Bataan / Thaddeus Holt -- III. World at War: 1942-1943. The Channel Dash / Michael H. Coles. Patrolling Guadalcanal / William H. Whyte. The Day the Hornet Sank / Alvin Kernan. The Battle That Never Happened / David M. Glantz. Eighth Army Eyewitness to El Alamein / George Greenfield. Stalingrad / Antony Beevor. Diary of a Tail Gunner / John Gabay. Churchill and His Generals / Eliot A. Cohen. The Turning Points of Tarawa / Joseph H. Alexander. The Kwai That Never Was / Stanley Weintraub. Orde Wingate: Rebellious Misfit / Charles Berges -- IV. The Secret War. Gott Mit Whom? / David Balme and John McCormick. Decima Mas / Paul Kemp. Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb / Dan Kurzman. Beachhead Labrador / W. A. B. Douglas. The Deceivers / Thaddeus Holt. Peppermint and Alsos / Ferenc M. Szasz -- V. The End in Europe: 1944-1945. The Airborne's Watery Triumph / T. Michael Booth and Duncan Spencer. Rommel's Last Battle / David Fraser. Falaise: The Trap Not Sprung / Carlo D'Este. In Defense of Montgomery / Alistair Horne. Did Strategic Bombing Work? / Williamson Murray. The Black Knight / Caleb Carr. The Last Barrier / Stephen E. Ambrose. The Last Picture Show / George Feifer. Berlin / John Keegan -- VI. Armageddon in the Pacific: 1944-1945. The Myth of the Saipan Suicides / Haruko Taya Cook. The Uncommon Commoner / Eric Morris. A Kamikaze's Story / Kanji Suzuki and Tadao Morimoto. Okinawa / Bruce I. Gudmundsson. The Right Man / Victor Davis Hanson. Previews of Hell / Edward J. Drea. The Soviet Invasion of Japan / David M. Glantz. The Voice of the Crane / Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar

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