World War Two: A Short History
Written by Norman Stone
Narrated by Derek Perkins
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Norman Stone
Norman Stone was one of Britain's greatest historians. In later life he was Professor of European History in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, having previously been a professor at the University of Oxford, lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. His major works included The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize), Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and Its Enemies. He lived in Hungary in his final years, and died in 2019.
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Reviews for World War Two
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book contains some interesting perspectives on the war, but is flawed by numerous factual and chronological errors. Part of the problem may be that the entire war is covered in what amounts to an extended essay. While the brevity is a virture, in that it allows the whole war to be summarized a weekend's reading, the need to condense the narrative leads to errors of omission and simplification that are misleading to the reader attempting to understand this most complicated of struggles. I enjoyed some of the book and was annoyed by some of it. In any event I would not recommend it to the reader who was going to rely upon it as their sole source of information on World War Two.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Encapsulates the pivotal events in accurate description of an exhaustive chronicle of WWII.
This is an excellent achievement in coverage of a global inhumane war caught in the complexity of political ideologies fighting Axis against Allied powers.
As a condensed unabridged tome of importance for a novice of WWII history the author has taken painstaking reconstruction of battles that were waged bringing into perspective the magnitude of human sacrifice and collateral damage made that is hard to grasp in today’s era. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The title says it all, but doesn't express how well written and entertaining this book was. It's the odd additions of little known (at least to me) facts that makes the history come alive.
Obviously the period is very quickly looked over, but it gives you a real idea of the sweep of battles and events and reasons behind the happenings of the times. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book contains some interesting perspectives on the war, but is flawed by numerous factual and chronological errors. Part of the problem may be that the entire war is covered in what amounts to an extended essay. While the brevity is a virture, in that it allows the whole war to be summarized a weekend's reading, the need to condense the narrative leads to errors of omission and simplification that are misleading to the reader attempting to understand this most complicated of struggles. I enjoyed some of the book and was annoyed by some of it. In any event I would not recommend it to the reader who was going to rely upon it as their sole source of information on World War Two.