David,
While not officially giving up on Weinberg I must confess to not having picked
him up again since reporting needing a break.
In regard to your Storm of War, I'm not happy with Amazon's habit of not
posting when a book was originally published. They did note that the copy of
The Storm of War they were selling was reprinted in 2011, but no mention of
when it was originally published that I could see; so I looked it up in
Wikipedia and found that it was originally published in 2009 – only 2 years
earlier, not too bad; so I ordered it.
I should mention that I read Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn, The War in North
Africa 1942-1943 back in May of 2008 and then began working on the 2nd volume
in the trilogy, The Day of Battle, The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 and
got to page 375 before taking a break (whenever that was). Volume 2 was
published in 2007. Volume 3 published in 2013, The Guns at Last Light: The War
in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 3).
I’ve read several books on individual battles, but I was looking for something
more comprehensive & so took up Ian Toll’s 3 volume series on the War in the
Pacific. I read the first 2 & the third one will be published in July. But
prior to that I began Rick Atkinson’s “The Liberation Trilogy,” a title that
will probably prevent its selling well in France. I should have theoretically
resumed Rick Atkinson’s trilogy before venturing into other writers such as
Weinberg. I have only about 200 more pages of text before finishing The Day of
Battle, but when exactly did I read the first 375 pages? It may very well have
been ten years ago. To do it justice I should reread the first 375 pages again
before continuing on . . . which I’m not willing to do. Maybe your Storm of
War will suffice well enough to enable me to take up the last 200 pages without
worrying too much about the earlier pages.
At the time I began Atkinson, he was being lauded as having written a difficult
to be surpassed work on WWII. His An Army at Dawn won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Whether he is still so highly considered, I don’t know.
Lawrence
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Having failed in our attempt to read that last history together, I hesitate to
recommend another, but Andrew Roberts, “The Storm of War: A New History of the
Second World War,” has held my attention to the point I have reached, which is
about half way through. Here’s the writing that caused me to think you might
enjoy it. “In hoping to drive Rommel back over the very flat country,
special-forces attacks were made in mid-Spetmeber against Tobruk (Operation
Agreement) and Benghazi (Operation Bigamy). Operation Agreement was badly
compromised from the start after a clash at a roadblock, and cost the lives of
750 men, the cruiser HMS Coventry and two destroyers with little to show for
it. Bigamy was an attractive idea in theory, but ultimately turned out to be
expensive and not worth the effort.” p.286
David Ritchie,
Portland,
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