Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II: The First Complete One-Volume History

Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II: The First Complete One-Volume History | Robert Leckie | Superb work that puts you in the fox hole as well as HQ

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	Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II: The First Complete One-Volume History Robert Leckie Harper Perennial, 1988 - 1024 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An In-Depth History That Reads Like A Novel

This book was actually used as a text in a history course at UW-Madison, and one of my college buddies was dismayed at its length when he enrolled in it. I took a look at its thickness and sympathized. Later I began to develop a more than passing interest in World War II, to the point where I now consider myself an amateur historian in my own right. Part of this passion and obsession means I'm compelled to read dozens of histories. It wasn't long before I stumbled on Delivered From Evil, remembered it from my friend's college days, and purchased it. I was amazed, first of all, at how easily Leckie relates the deep strategies and motivations behind the events with a novelist's flair for storytelling and drama. Though this is a long book, it actually is very tightly written, as must be any text that focuses on the entire war (D-Day is given two small chapters, for example). Yet it is far from superficial. After reading it one feels that he has much more than a surface understanding of what happened and why. Leckie also (accurately) gives most of the credit for winning the war in Europe to the Russians, a point of view which all serious historians recognize, but one that is given short shrift in the West. The difficult to explain Pacific Campaign is also handled masterfully. There are other books that explain these events in greater detail, but few that make the deeper causes and consequences so accessible to the non-historian. A truly great book and one that must be read by even those with a casual interest in the topic.

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Superb work that puts you in the fox hole as well as HQ

Robert Leckie is everything a historian should be. He gives you the facts, the reasons and the implications of events and people. The book moves fast as though you were reading a novel. His narrative gift allows him to tell the story of WWII and the story sticks with you. The recounting of individual feats does not get in the way of telling the story from all levels of war. His ability to mix, tactics, operations and strategy makes this booka must read

excellent book

This is a brilliant book. Lekie's scope is massive but the reader doesn't get lost. He uses just the right amount of detail so that once you start reading this book you can't stop. I especially liked the way the book shifted between the typical all-seeing point of view and the point of view of the average soldier

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Leckie portrays WWII from all sides.

I had never been interested in military history, until I saw this book sitting on a shelf in a bookstore. Robert Leckie is a genius. He can tell the story of the second world war in national and personal perspective, give an excellent narrative and show what was behind the Dictators like Hitler and Mussolini. Throughout it's entirity, I never put it down.

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