Review: A World at Arms
Redaktioneller Bericht - Kirkus ReviewsAt once accessible, concise, and comprehensive: a masterful overview of WW II. Drawing on previously unavailable archives as well as standard sources, historian Weinberg (Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany, etc.; Univ. of North Carolina) begins his chronicle of the great conflict with an analysis of the post-WW I events that led to a second world war. Getting down to business, he documents the fundamentally different intentions of latter-day belligerents like the Axis partners, Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan, whose objectives encompassed a total reordering of territory, resources, and populations, while by contrast their WW I counterparts had fought mainly to preserve traditional balances of power. In pursuing his enormous theme, the author focuses on the strategic why rather than the tactical how of major clashes, leaving the details of such landmark engagements as the Battle of Britain to others with less lofty ambitions. This isn't to say that Weinberg shortchanges his readers in any substantive way. In addition to assessing the global implications of big-picture campaigns, for example, he offers short-take perspectives on action in hitherto neglected theaters. Cases in point range from the Allied seizure (from the Vichy French) of Madagascar on to so-called sideshows in Burma, Eastern Africa, and Iraq. Covered as well are the roles played by intelligence operatives, diplomats, Wehrmacht bureaucrats responsible for the Holocaust, civilians in scores of countries, and scientists recruited to develop the atomic bombs that helped hasten V-J Day. Weinberg's chronological narrative occasionally verges on the kaleidoscopic, but, this cavil apart, the author offers an authoritative survey of a huge conflict that, he suggests in an affecting afterword, might just have saved a weary world from even more destructive hostilities. The text has over 20 helpful maps. (Book-of-the-Month Dual Selection for March; Main Selection of the History Book Club)
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - Corey - GoodreadsSuperb over view of WWII, rather lengthy to the point it became a chore to read, 920 pages. Excellent insights. MacArthur does nor come out well. a very global perspective of the war. The connections between Japan and Germany were closer than I had imagined. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsIn a new edition featuring a new preface, A World of Arms remains a classic of global history. Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of World War II to provide a truly ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - Loring Wirbel - GoodreadsOffering up a single-volume history of WW2 is a daunting task that has sunk many a would-be historian. Do you focus on diplomacy, niche yourself to cover naval battles of the Southwest Pacific, or ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - Mikhail Baskov - GoodreadsOne of the best books on WWII. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - GoodreadsI'd need to read it a few more times to absorb all the information, but there's a reason this book is considered one of the standards of WWII literature.
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - John Nevola - GoodreadsA World At Arms is a masterful scholarly work. At nearly 1,000 pages, it takes on the War in all its nuances. From a geographical viewpoint, it deals with events in countries not normally referenced ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War II
Nutzerbericht - Stanley Hopcroft - GoodreadsValuable at least for the discussion of the origin of the second world war and the colour of the new order. Weinberg asserts, convincingly from my point of view, is that the war was seen by the Axis ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - GoodreadsExcellent book.
Review: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Nutzerbericht - Chris Mericle - GoodreadsOver 1,000 pages and around 100 footnotes per chapter, one of the experts in English who writes on German foreign policy and German diplomatic history wrote this book. A juggernaut of academic work ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
