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No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II
No End Save Victory Perspectives on World War II Author:Robert Cowley (Editor) 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 m... more »aps, 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.
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 Ssnk / 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« less