The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness

ISBN 10: 0786710713 / ISBN 13: 9780786710713

Published by Running Press, 2002

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Synopsis:

A firsthand history of World War II is told from the eyewitness perspectives of its fighters, from a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, to a G.I. in a foxhole in Okinawa, to a kamikazi pilot in training, to the Nuremberg trials, to the brutality of the Nazi concentration camps, including reports by Erwin Rommel, Jimmy Doolittle, Edward R. Murrow, Virginia Woolf, and Primo Levi. Original.

Synopsis: The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II takes you into the Second World Warthe most destructive conflict in history. Testaments from all sides gathered by editor Jon E. Lewis bear witness to that gigantic war, fought on vast terms but experienced on a human scale. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II is more than a history of the 193545 conflict, a chronicle of events from Hitler's blitzkreig across Europe to the war crime death sentences carried out by the Nuremberg court. This anthology is a firsthand record of what it felt like to live and fight in that timewhether as a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, a G. I. in a foxhole in Okinawa, a Frontsoldaten in the abattoir of Stalingrad, a woman worker alongside "Rosie the Riveter" at an aircraft plant, a U. S. Marine in boot camp, a kamikazi pilot in training, and many others. Of the famous, there are addresses by the titanic statesmen Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin, battle reports by commanders such as Erwin Rommel and Tokyo-bomber Jimmy Doolittle, on-the-ground descriptions of the Blitz by Edward R. Murrow, J. B.

Priestley, and Virginia Woolf, and the experience of the Nazis' genocide of Jewish Europeans by Anne Frank and Primo Levi. From the war in Europe and on the Atlantic, through the African campaign, the Russian Front, and the battle for the Pacific, and finally to the siege of Berlin and the atomic bombing of Japan, what unfolds in these pages is World War II in all its brutality, heroism, stupidity, inspiration, and destruction.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness
Publisher: Running Press
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good