“A masterpiece of historical scholarship, exceptionally 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, this is a seminal, groundbreaking, and unreservedly recommended pick…”
Read the full review [link=https://www.midwestbookreview.com/lbw/sep_24.htm#WorldHistory]here.[/link]
Midwest Book Review
“A masterpiece of historical scholarship, exceptionally 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, this is a seminal, groundbreaking, and unreservedly recommended pick…”
Read the full review [link=https://www.midwestbookreview.com/lbw/sep_24.htm#WorldHistory]here.[/link]
Midwest Book Review
'Highly recommended, not only for the remarkable story itself but also the quality of its research, its presentation and readability.'
Adrian Greaves
'Highly recommended, not only for the remarkable story itself but also the quality of its research, its presentation and readability.'
Adrian Greaves
"...I have no hesitation in recommending this new edition..."
See the full review [link=https://navalinstitute.com.au/warship-design-since-1945/]here[/link]
Australian Naval Institute
"...I have no hesitation in recommending this new edition..."
See the full review [link=https://navalinstitute.com.au/warship-design-since-1945/]here[/link]
Australian Naval Institute
This book offers the reader a somewhat eclectic mix of accounts from German senior officers, written postwar, setting out their recollections and analyses of the preparations for the anticipated allied landings and how the events of 5,6 and 7 June actually unfolded. The accounts are necessarily partisan, written with the benefit of hindsight and, often, making a case as to why the failure of the German defence was someone else’s fault - particularly Hitler’s. Despite these acknowledged weaknesses, the accounts reveal how the allied landings were fortunate not to encounter the German army at a peak of preparedness and equipped with adequate men and matériel. The resourcefulness of German forces when it came to counter attack is highlighted as is the cost this imposed on the allied armies in the fighting in the Normandy bocage.
NetGalley, Kevin Manley
This book offers the reader a somewhat eclectic mix of accounts from German senior officers, written postwar, setting out their recollections and analyses of the preparations for the anticipated allied landings and how the events of 5,6 and 7 June actually unfolded. The accounts are necessarily partisan, written with the benefit of hindsight and, often, making a case as to why the failure of the German defence was someone else’s fault - particularly Hitler’s. Despite these acknowledged weaknesses, the accounts reveal how the allied landings were fortunate not to encounter the German army at a peak of preparedness and equipped with adequate men and matériel. The resourcefulness of German forces when it came to counter attack is highlighted as is the cost this imposed on the allied armies in the fighting in the Normandy bocage.
NetGalley, Kevin Manley
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
Dawn of D-Day, by David Howarth, Stephen Howarth is an updated reprint of the author's father's book from 1959. This book is about several different people's extraordinary experiences of that infamous day almost 80years ago. I was absolutely enthralled reading about the first hand accounts of that day. I couldn't put this fascinating book down! It is a fairly quick read, and very easy to follow, and because of that I hope more people will read this, because this book is Not boring.
NetGalley, Colleen Schleich
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
Dawn of D-Day, by David Howarth, Stephen Howarth is an updated reprint of the author's father's book from 1959. This book is about several different people's extraordinary experiences of that infamous day almost 80years ago. I was absolutely enthralled reading about the first hand accounts of that day. I couldn't put this fascinating book down! It is a fairly quick read, and very easy to follow, and because of that I hope more people will read this, because this book is Not boring.
NetGalley, Colleen Schleich
Enemy Coast Ahead
Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the now-famous Dam Busters raid against the dams of the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. He died aged 26 in 1944,… Read more...
