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# A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War

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    As good as you can find for the matter to hand
  

*by A***D on Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014*

One aspect of this work that is not covered very much by other reviews is the moral tone that shines through it. As other reviewers have noted Murray and Millett have no room for moral relativism regarding the Nazi party and it's program or the complicity of the Wehrmacht in German war crimes. However, they do not gloss over the total human cost of the war both in specific battles between soldiers and the devastating impact of the war on the unarmed populations. The last couple of chapters covering the end of the war in Europe and the aftermath of the war depict a continent hollowed out by internal blood letting of unimaginable scope. They make clear both the brutal behavior of Soviet armies in Eastern Europe and the destructive effects of Allied firepower in Western Europe and combine them with the Nazi exterminations of whole classes of people to reveal in clear and precise detail the truly awful fate of an entire continent. The consideration of these topics is in some ways all the more powerful for not being much reinforced with the actual voices of such experience but being stated baldly as the facts.By comparison, M and M seem to view the violence in the Asian war between the Allies and the Japanese Empire as being somewhat more within historical precedent even if the most extreme forms of Japanese militarism were right on the edge.Most reviewers seem to focus on what they perceive to be the judgment and conclusions of M and M on specific military commanders and activities but no authors being anything other than anodyne can please everyone with such opinions no matter what level of scholarship they have brought to the party. I have a few quibbles of my own but they aren't worth sharing considering how difficult the task at hand was for the authors. I did not find the maps the most helpful I have seen. On the eastern front there seemed to be too many movements around cities which could not be found on the applicable maps. Reference to a good military atlas would be a reasonable supplement to this book. The photographs are numerous and of good quality. in keeping with the moral tone mentioned 13 of the illustrations show pictures of dead human bodies. The bibliographical section focuses on professional and archival sources and is not really a guide to reading material for the general layperson interested in the subject.One failing of this book as with most comprehensive WW2 histories is treating the war as being between two sides when there were actually four sides, the Anglo American Alliance, the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, and the Soviet Union, with four different agendas and four largely independent prosecutions of the war.

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    A Fact-Packed, Well-Written Overview of World War Two
  

*by B***K on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2000*

I enjoyed reading this book, which is a bit off-putting due to its size and breadth. As long as one has a bit of time on his or her hands, this is a useful and entertaining way to spend some quality time with yourself in  the company of two excellent history writers. The book has an amazing  scope, and like Gerhard Weinberg's "A World At Arms" has a  mammoth and daunting job at hand to describe the total scope and  kaleidoscope of activities contained under the rubric of the second world  war.The authors here are much more forthcoming than was Weinhard in  discussing specific battlefield details of particular engagements, and this  adds to the book's considerable value and readability  to history buffs  like myself. I enjoy their liberal employment of relevant economic,  technological, geographical and other factors in describing the whos, hows,  whens, wheres and whys of specific struggles as well as in describing the  nature of the overall socio-political aspects of the war. So, when they  subsequently launch into discussing their uniquely constructed  "standards of military effectiveness", they add to its value by  buttressing their findings with a wealth of different kinds of supporting  data, information, and background that makes the total overview of the war  much more understandable than it would be otherwise.The book does  suffer from some minor drawbacks, such as the authors' obvious quarrel with  the contributions and strategies of Douglas MacArthur, yet they are also  suitably fastidious in pointing out his many contributions and effective  tactics as well. This drawback is counterbalanced by an outstanding  treatment  covering the Nazi campaign against Russia, and the day to day  details crammed into describing the ill-fated and terribly over-extended  German occupation and troubles in Operation Barbarossa and in the  subsequent crushing defeats at the hands of the Russian armies is worth the  price of the book alone.In summary, I also believe their well-argued  and documented take on the importance and lasting influence of the second  world war is crucial in understanding all that followed in the balance of  the 20th century to be well taken, and to be beyond reasonable dispute. In  some respects (Such as level of detail regarding specific engagements) this  is a better book than Weinberg's, and on other levels it falls short of his  monumental work. Combined, the two books offer one an astounding and quite  rich look at a war that we are just starting to appreciate in all of its  amazing scope, ferocity, and consequence. This book should be required  reading for anyone considering a career in 20th century history, or for all  of us history nuts who just can't get enough of a great thing. Enjoy!

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    I was disappointed in this book
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2015*

Too much concentration on the War in the Pacific. Nothing in the book that hasn't been written before. I was disappointed in this book. At best it is a student guide.

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