The Story of World War II

De: Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager

Narrado por: Michael Kramer

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative.

Miller covers the entire war - on land, at sea, and in the air - and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College. He is a creator and associate producer of the HBO documentary He Has Seen War and has been chief consultant for numerous award-winning PBS productions. He is author of the prizewinning City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America.

©1945 Henry Steele Commager; renewed by Lou Reda Productions and Mary Steele Commager. Revisions; and introduction 2001 by Donald L. Miller (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This is the book that deserves to be titled The Story of World War II...." (James Bradley, New York Times best-selling author)

"A major publishing event. Donald Miller’s additions to the original account are outstanding, and the total effect is one few readers will ever forget." (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author)

"Whenever you do a film, there’s always a book that you want in your hip pocket to settle all questions. The Story of World War II was that book." (Ken Burns, creator of the seven-part documentary The War)

Best written, best narrator

Hands down among the best of 20+ related books on this topic I've read or listened to in the past decade. A generous, over-arching history of WWll, factoid-filled and fleshed out with choice, heartfelt recollections of the men and women who were there, in broad spectrum of their capacities. Wrapped up with the perfect ender.

Excellent, excellent, excellent. And at 25hrs a prize and a half.

WWll

Content was excellent. I love how the story was told by the people who fought in the war. Every person living in the United States should have to listen to this. Now I have a better idea of what my father lived through for 3.5 in a Sherman tank.

Extraordinary

So much new learned in this excellent retelling of a war we think we know.

best ever sorry interesting and gory loved it

made for an interesting read and allowed me to know the truth I never knew existed

the best WW II book I've ever read

This is the best WW II book I've ever read and I think I may have read all of them.... maybe not but almost. This is the only one that brought tears to my eyes on a regular basis. It is the most complete and comprehensive - giving the command perspective and the fighting man's perspective. If I had to recommend just one book on WW II, it would be this one.