Poor Man’s War
Richard Overy, 12 October 1989
Second World War
by Martin Gilbert.
Weidenfeld, 846 pp., £18.95, August 1989,9780297796169 Show More
by Martin Gilbert.
Weidenfeld, 846 pp., £18.95, August 1989,
The Second World War
by John Keegan.
Hutchinson, 608 pp., £19.95, September 1989,0 09 174011 8 Show More
by John Keegan.
Hutchinson, 608 pp., £19.95, September 1989,
“... pages. Most of Keegan’s deaths occur in the course of battle, and not every battle gets the same weight. He has chosen a number of battles which he regards as typical of their kind during the war – an air battle, a city battle, an amphibious battle, and so on. This sometimes gives the sense that the text is several books rolled into one, and it might well ... ”