The Greatest War, Volume III: The Battle of the Bulge to Hiroshima [Mass Market Paperback]

Gerald Astor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2001 | Series: Greatest War (Book 3)

The third volume of this American combat history of World War II highlights the exploits of General MacArthur in the Phillipines and General Patton in Germany and covers from the Battle of the Bulge to Hiroshima and the end of the war.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446610488
• ISBN-13: 978-0446610483
• Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,021,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Typos, typos, typos!, July 5, 2011

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This review is from: The Greatest War - Volume III: The Battle of the Bulge to Hiroshima: 3 (Kindle Edition)

I read all three volumes and they are all three worth reading by anyone wanting all overall view of WWII. The thing that really bugged me about volume III was the hundreds of typos. Someone should have proofread this volume! I assume the problems were from scanning and having OCR software render the scanning to text. Many of the typos included "rite" for rifle, "Shun" for Shuri on Okinawa, "Haster Sunday" for Easter Sunday, "lire" for fire, "in Phib commander" for who knows what kind of commander, "put :ing" for putting, "theentire company" for the entire company, "mast" for most, "Harl" for Earl, "JaiDanese" for Japanese, "itshours" for its hours, "die" for the, "re;ir" for rear, etc., etc. Just messes up a book for me.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Third book in series rounds out WW2, July 21, 2002

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David W. Nicholas (Van Nuys, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Greatest War, Volume III: The Battle of the Bulge to Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the third book in Gerald Astor's WW2 series covering American servicemen in all theaters, for the duration of the war. Now that I've finished the series, I can more completely comment on the books. While I enjoyed them, I must comment that there's as much left out (in terms of types of fighting, etc.) as there is included in the books.

For one thing, there's almost nothing on the Navy's war with the Japanese, and nothing at all on the War in the Atlantic. Combat in Italy seemingly stopped with the capture of Rome, the war in Burma is only briefly mentioned, and parts of the campaign in the Pacific are completely ignored. I will grant, however, that what's here is well-presented, with a thoughtful commentary hanging it together so that it makes sense.

I will comment on one further annoying thing. There are several places here where he quotes from books or authors that are reasonably well-known. For instance, two of the best known Marines-turned-military historians, Richard Wheeler and E.B.Sledge, get quoted in this book. Now I've read both men's accounts of their time in the war, so I don't need them rehashed, and I would have preferred something about someone I didn't have access to myself.

That being said, this is still a good book, and well worth the time invested reading it.