The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook

Coetzee, Frans; Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195174429 ISBN 13: 9780195174427

Publisher: OUP USA, 2012

The World in Flames An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War, The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook is the first of its kind to provide an ambitious and wide-ranging survey of the war in a convenient and comprehensive package. Conveying the sheer scale and reach of the conflict, the book's twelve chapters include sufficient narrative and analysis to enable students to grasp both the war's broad outlines and the context and significance of each particular source. Beginning with the growing disenchantment over the World War I peace settlements and the determination of German, Italian, and Japanese leaders to revise the situation, the book traces the...

Review:

for a single-volume collection of medium length it would be difficult to better it. Even specialists should find a considerable amount of interesting material that is new to them. This is certainly an appropriate collection for students in a general university course on the Second World War. ... This is certainly a valuable collection, and one highly to be recommended. (Evan Mawdsley, War in History)

About the Author:

Both Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee have taught at Yale and George Washington Universities and earned fellowships from the ACLS, Alexander von Humboldt, Fulbright and Mellon Foundations, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,and the NEH. They are the authors or editors of five books and numerous articles and maintain a website on world history, www.history4everyone.com.