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No End Save Victory
by Peter Cowley, Leo Burmester
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Highbridge Audio (2001-03-19)
ISBN: 1565114469
EAN: 9781565114463
Dewy Decimal #: 940.542
Audio Cassette: 330 pages
Edition: 5.5 hours/4 cassette
Release Date: 2001-03-15
SKU: 0711040141
Condition: New
Comments: Like new condition. Case lid is broken. May have a sticker on the artwork or disk with the previous owners name or initials but does not affect use.
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Editorial Reviews
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Book Description
Essays on the most pivotal military conflict of the twentieth century written by renowned historians and presented by the editor of the acclaimed What If?
No reader interested in twentieth-century history and the Second World War will want to miss this collection of fascinating essays. In more than two hundred thousand words and twenty maps, some of the most respected and well-known military historians of our time describe the horror and heroism that defined a generation: the chaos of Europe and the Nazi reign of terror prior to D day; the far-flung fight in East Asia and the Pacific; the secret struggle of intelligence services; the final Allied push into Central Europe; and the atomic end in Japan.
Stephen E. Ambrose tells the miraculous story of a single American company that captured a bridge over the Rhine-a river Hitler had considered a barrier never to be broken. John Keegan takes us inside Berlin in the Spring of 1945 during the most intense city siege in history. William Manchester reminds us of the vital importance of the RAF's radar towers during the Battle of Britain, one of the truly hair-raising "narrow misses" of the war. In two pieces, Caleb Carr illuminates the only war Hilter won-the Blitzkrieg campaign over Poland in 1939-and brings to life the German "Black Knight," Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who so inspired his troops in late 1944 that he may have prolonged the war another six months.
Essays from other illustrious contributors include Antony Beevor on Stalingrad; Victor Davis Hanson on General Curtis LeMay; Eliot A. Cohen on Churchill; and Alistair Horne on Montgomery.
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Customer Reviews
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Lots of interesting stories
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-03-10
I've read a lot about WWII - this CD audio book had some obscure tales that I had never heard of. Interesting material, well-produced.
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Collection of articles from MHQ on WW2
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-09-21
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a collection of articles by various mostly eminent historians covering most of the critical events of World War II. It includes articles by Caleb Carr (the novelist who wrote The Alienist), William Manchester (biographer of Churchill and MacArthur), Antony Beevor (author of books on Stalingrad and Berlin), and Theodore F. Cook (specialist in Japan during WW2). The articles consist of everything from studies of battles to biographies of the major combatants.
This book is better a bit than Cowley's volume on the Civil War. He does ruin some of the articles by cribbing his introductions from the actual articles that he's introducing. The authors themselves, however, are just about as stellar as they can get in the current round of historians, including Manchester, who's now retired, and Carr, who's stopped writing military history in favor of novels. The other misgiving I have is that this isn't a complete history of the war. The reader must have a reasonable knowledge of the war before s/he begins reading the book, to understand all the nuances and points that are made by the various authors.
I liked this collection, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in military history or World War II.
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Essays by Today's Foremost World War II Authors
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-09-08
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book offers a fine collection of essays written by today's foremost authorities on the second world war. Authors such as Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan, and Dan Kurzman have contributed to this fine book. The layout of the book is excellent. Instead of having individual chapters, the editors have put the essays into chronological order, so the reader doesn't necessarily have to read the book in sequential order. Rather, the reader has the freedom to skip to the parts of the book that they find the most interesting if they so choose.Each essay gives a unique insight into a specific area of the war. Some of my favorites included "Diary of a Tail Gunner", told by a B-17 tail gunner who survived twenty six missons over Nazi territory. I also enjoyed "The Other Pearl Harbor", which discussed MacArthur's failures in the Phillipines after the Pearl Harbor attack. There is something for everyone in this book, regardless if you enjoy reading about the European or Pacific theaters. This is a good book and gives a fine overview of the entire war as well as some lesser-known encounters.
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Illuminating Collection Of Essays On World War Two!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-07-24
11 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
What a wonderful gift editor Robert Crowley has given us with this treasure trove of individual essays from individual contributors in this spellbinding book covering a number of different aspects and experiences during World War Two! As one of the authors, the late popular historian Stephan Ambrose has shown us with many of his own works, the history of the Second World War was such a massive and variegated plethora of anecdotes, campaigns and experiences that it is nearly impossible to exhaust the steady stream of captivating stories that spring from its loins like bouncing babies, fully formed, into the waiting reader's lap. This is a particularly attractive package of essays, perfect for people who want something relatively short, as each individual offering within is, something one can read on a plane flight in its entirety and then pick up later without trying to remember the context or story thread where he had left off. And each of the stories makes for fascinating reading indeed. The list of authors included is both impressive and eclectic, ranging from Ambrose, who weighs in with the taut and stirring tale of a platoon of paratroopers attempting to take and control a bridge key to the initial thrust of the first few hours of the Normandy landing, to Caleb Carr, better known for his success as a novelist ("The Alienist") but quite an eminent historian as well, to William Manchester to John Keegan to Antony Beever to Stanley Weintraub to David M. Glantz. And this is only some of the luminary historically prominent authors gathered together in what can only be described as a bravura collection of stories and perspectives on the total war effort, ranging in topics from the island hopping effort in the South Pacific to the desperate hours of the first few hours leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in the French Ardennes in December of 1944. Despite my own wide reading of similar historical sources over the last thirty years, I found several of the articles quite illuminating and educational, as with Caleb Car's treatment of life on the ground as the invasion of Poland proceeds in September, 1939 in the precipitating event that quickly served to trigger the advent of the Second World War as such. Similarly, articles by Charles Berges, Sir David Fraser, and Carlo D'Este proved both fascinating and edifying in illuminating aspects of the war only poorly understood and studied in the existing literature. This monograph especailly serves the interested private scholars like me who wants to know more about various different aspects and perspectives of the war that are not adequately or fully treated elsewhere, and used in conjunction with marvelous other resources such as Gerhard Weinberg's masterful "A World At Arms", Richard Spector's terrific ""Eagle Against The Sun", and William Shirer's eye-witness testimony in "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich", gives us a much richer and more comprehensive understanding of the signal historical event of the 20th century. Enjoy!
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Great Book - Highly Recommended
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-02-06
4 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
This collection of essays is nothing less than superb.
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