Henry Steele Commager's the story of the Second World War
by Henry Steele Commager and Donald L. Miller
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Historian Donald L. Miller offers The Story of World War II, an expanded and updated rewrite of Henry Steele Commager's 1945 The Story of the Second World War. Commager was a historian who taught at NYU, Columbia and Amherst; he died in 1998. Miller (Lewis Mumford: A Life) is a professor at Lafayette College and the host of PBS's A Biography of America. With new material from oral accounts, letters and memoirs to which Commager didn't have access and with the inclusion of nearly 200 b & w photographs, Miller alters the footprint but respects the integrity of his predecessor's work. Old-school, just-the-facts-Ma'am historiography is the name of this game, but the extensive, moving testimonies by veterans of their brushes with death and terror humanize and vivify the described events. Maps.
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World War, 1939-1945, Weltkrieg, HISTORY, Military, World War II, World war, 1939-1945| Edition | Availability |
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Story of World War II: Revised, Expanded, and Updated from the Original T
2010, Simon & Schuster
in English
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The Story of the Second World War (History of War)
January 26, 2004, Potomac Books Inc.
Paperback
in English
1574887416 9781574887419
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Henry Steele Commager's the story of the Second World War
1998, Brassey's
in English
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The story of the Second World War
1998, Barnes & Noble Books
Hardcover
in English
0760709629 9780760709627
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The Story of the Second World War
August 1998, Potomac Books
Paperback
in English
- New edition
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Henry Steele Commager's the story of the Second World War
1998, Brassey's
in English
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Henry Steele Commager's the Story of the Second World War (An Ausa Institute of Land Warfare Book)
December 1991, Brassey's Inc
in English
0080410669 9780080410661
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Henry Steele Commager's the Story of the Second World War (An Ausa Institute of Land Warfare Book)
December 1991, Brassey's Inc
Hardcover
in English
0080410669 9780080410661
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Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1945.
Includes indexes.
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"BEFORE DAWN of September 1, 1939, clouds of bombers and fighters flew eastward into the skies over Poland, raining death and destruction on helpless towns and villages, on airfields, railroads, bridges, and factories."
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