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The Taste Of Courage: The War, 1939-1945

The Taste Of Courage: The War, 1939-1945

Desmand Flower
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This magnificent and moving volume describes - in the words of those who took part in it-- every aspect of the greatest war in history, beginnimg wth the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and ending with the Japanese surrender in September and October, 1945 in the words of the editors, the book is "a chronicle of how it actually felt to be alive twenty years ago; to see, to hear, to smell, to feel the war at first hand."

Out of the mass of dramatic, eyewitness accounts written by thousands of participants, The Editors have chosen the best writing from all sides of the conflict and all walks of life, civilian as well as military. In these enthralling pages the reader shares the views, feelings and experiences of housewives in London and Berlin, of Russians and Germans creeping through the frozen rubble of Stalingrad, of Americans and Japenese inching through a sodden Pacific jungle, of sailors under submarine and air attack, of Englishmen and Germans facing one another at El Alamin, of Brittish American soldiers storming the Normandy beaches and hegerows, and of a Dutch boy who has just learned that his mother was killed in the German bombing of Rotterdam.

Every phase and theatre of the conflict is covered. The effect is to give the reader a complete running account of the war; an eyewitnesshistory in which he shares the terror and heroism, the trajedy, irony and humor, the taste of dispair and triumph of the years when the fate of the world hung in the balance.

The Taste Of Courage is not only a tremendous contribution to the literature of the war but an incomparably engrossing reading experience; here is humanity grappling with--and somehow surviving--its greatest ordeal.
Language
English
Pages
1120
Format
Hardcover

The Taste Of Courage: The War, 1939-1945

Desmand Flower
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This magnificent and moving volume describes - in the words of those who took part in it-- every aspect of the greatest war in history, beginnimg wth the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and ending with the Japanese surrender in September and October, 1945 in the words of the editors, the book is "a chronicle of how it actually felt to be alive twenty years ago; to see, to hear, to smell, to feel the war at first hand."

Out of the mass of dramatic, eyewitness accounts written by thousands of participants, The Editors have chosen the best writing from all sides of the conflict and all walks of life, civilian as well as military. In these enthralling pages the reader shares the views, feelings and experiences of housewives in London and Berlin, of Russians and Germans creeping through the frozen rubble of Stalingrad, of Americans and Japenese inching through a sodden Pacific jungle, of sailors under submarine and air attack, of Englishmen and Germans facing one another at El Alamin, of Brittish American soldiers storming the Normandy beaches and hegerows, and of a Dutch boy who has just learned that his mother was killed in the German bombing of Rotterdam.

Every phase and theatre of the conflict is covered. The effect is to give the reader a complete running account of the war; an eyewitnesshistory in which he shares the terror and heroism, the trajedy, irony and humor, the taste of dispair and triumph of the years when the fate of the world hung in the balance.

The Taste Of Courage is not only a tremendous contribution to the literature of the war but an incomparably engrossing reading experience; here is humanity grappling with--and somehow surviving--its greatest ordeal.
Language
English
Pages
1120
Format
Hardcover

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