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A synthetic approach combining political, social, and ideological texts offers students a wide perspective on life in Hitler's Germany. Unit I considers the political history of Germany from 1918 to 1938; Unit II focuses upon National Socialist ideology and the dictatorship of 1938-1945; Unit III considers Nazi power in its police and military forms.
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A great collectoin of documents.......2006-12-15
This book provides an excellent array of documents on Hitler's Germany and the rise of the third Reich. Germany has a checkered history but it's well represented through the documents chosen here. This is an ideal book for a college seminar on the Nazi's or anyone who wants to do research on the regime.
OK, but missed an important point.......2006-04-15
I commend the authors for the comprehensive documentation but they missed an important historical point. There was no mention that Hitler was appointed after he apparently blackmailed the old man, Hindenberg. Most historians point out the fact that Hitler got wind that Hindenberg was given a large Junker estate in East Prussia. That in itself was not illegal but when the deed to the estate was made known it contained the name of Paul von Hindenberg's son as the owner (Oscar von Hindenberg) rather than the old man. This was an attempt to avoid the inheritance or death taxes that would become due on the death of the 85 year old pompus old man who was commander of the German Army in WW1. It was Paul von Hindenberg who was responsible for appointing Hitler(who had only 34% of the vote in Nov 1932) but/and until his death in August 1934 had the ability to remove Hitler but did not. It was Hindenberg who was blackmailed and further induced by an additional gift of 450,000 marks for which he failed to pay the taxes on plus an additional 5000 acres the Nazi's added to his estate after Jan 1933. In addition, the old man still had the clout to protect the life of a personal friend, Franz von Papen(a previous Chancellor) and he did that. I think the authors failed to provide the students at the U of Kansas the name of the real slime-ball responsible for Hitler--Paul von Hindenberg, the pompus coward President who appointed Hitler and who obviously felt and acted that his own person legacy was more important than the destiny of Germany!!! As an accurate historical document this book falls way short.
Best Book for Study of the Third Reich.......2005-12-06
I had this book for a college class on the Third Reich, and out of the six books we had, I think this was one of the best. The book lays out a lot of information and during discussion, you can draw out a lot of conclusions about how complex the dealing inside the Reich were at the time.
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From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler
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The author was a personal friend of Adolf Hitler for 12 years until he turned against him. This is an inside account of The Third Reich and the man who invented it.
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Get it From the Horse's Mouth.......2007-10-09
Forget about the other books on Speer and Hitler. Get it from the horse's mouth and make your own judgement. Besides, this is such a fascinating book beautifully written, it's highly recommended and a valuable acquisition to anyone or any library.
fascinating memoire by one of Hitler's sycophants turned adversary.......2007-07-26
This is a truly great book, by a man who was one of Hitler's most intimate associates for the entire duration of one of the most evil regimes in the history of mankind. As a deeply personal memoire, it is also a testament to human dignity that is written in a wonderful and highly literary style. I was utterly rivetted by the story and learned invaluable lessons about Hitler himself, viewed as a human being and not merely the monster that he certainly was.
The book starts with Speer as a young man, deeply frustrated by his lack of career prospects as a fledgling architect. While not necessarily original or brilliant, he was highly disciplined and cultured, from the upper middle class. Thus, you see him drawn to Hitler's magnetism, an inexplicable attraction that proved irresistable to this ambitious youth. As such, I do not believe we should so facilely judge him. He came to believe that Hitler was a great leader, capable of leading the nation to great things from the chaos of the inter-war years. So, he began to associate himself with the party. As a frustrated architect himself, Hitler viewed Speer with unusual and personal favor. And so bgean a remarkable career that ended when Speer was only 40, thus his prime youth.
Slowly, Speer worked his way into Hitler's intimate entourage, spending many hours going over megalomaniacal plans for fascist buildings and even entire city plans. Everything they did had to be bigger than anything ever done, either in Rome or the US, to reflect the "glory" of the regime. This is the first third of the book and in many ways is the most revealing and fascinating. From the start, he was struck at the crudeness of the culture of Hitler's inner circle, as they gathered around him and formed a kind of court to flatter the dictator's vanity and curry favor and power. Speer held himself aloof from much of this, but also found the power and prestige irrestible. He was seduced and in psychological thrall, which essentially lasted until Hitler's death.
What was most surprising to me was how little Hitler and the others actually worked prior to the War: what they spent most of their time doing was projecting their fantasies into the minds of Germans via spectacular architecture, propanganda gestures, and aggressive though bloodless diplomacy. It was a unique combination of mass-media technology and parochial isolation that is impossible to imagine today. To a certain extent, you feel you get to know all of Hitler's entourage, from Goebbels, Goering, and Hess to lesser figures like Eva Brown, Borman and Himmler. The portraits are complex and invaluable.
During this time, Speer claims, he had many intimations of the doom and destruction that were to follow, often from solemn pronouncements by Hitler that his gamble might leave him as one of the great villains of history - if he failed. Speer even developed a theory of how to construct buildings that would decay "well" - to reflect the power of the regime for all ages, as does the Roman Colosseum or Hadrian's dome - in spite of their modern technological requirements for higher maintenance than earlier stone-based monuments.
Then, with the war and his appointment as Armaments Minister, we witness Speer's complete corruption. It is here that he becomes the ultimate technocrat, enabling the regime to carry out its violence and destruction by any means possible, from technological wizardry to slave labor. Most fascinatingly, Speer dissects his own psychology: he chose to ignore his conscience, walling off his mind to the attrocities around him and continuing to believe in Hitler's genius and will as providential and even perhaps divine. He also reveals himself as a naif, believing that the right technical arguments should win the day rather than politics. Speer nonetheless describes himself as a seasoned political in-fighter, often basing his strong position on his access to Hitler; there were times that this endangered him, as when Himmler's doctor may have been attepting to assasinate or at least allow him to grow mortally ill by "misdiagnosis."
Once the war begins to go badly, Speer gets even closer to Hitler with detailed explanations of the working of totalitarian governmental machinery. Starting out with near-dictatorial powers (as the 2nd most powerful man in the regime for a time), Speer witnesses how his dependence on Hitler's approval dooms him to the sidelines as the Nazi party apparatus gains power, in large part to protect Hitler from the seeing realities of the war losses. Moreover, he depicts the limits of Hitler's vision, stuck as it was in his WWI experience and the mediocrity of his technical imagination. Thus, Speer catalogues his increasingly catastrophic decisions, from fundaamental strategic blunders like attacking the USSR to tactical ones, such as his insistence that the first jet aircraft should serve as bombers rather than defensive fighters. This is fascinating political science, showing both the strengths of the regime - Hitler in his amateurishness could surprise enemies with audacious and unorthodox tactics supported by new technologies, hence the Blitzkrieg - to the dangers of over-centralization as Hitler proved unable to delegate even the most mundane details. From efficiency of the Nazi killing machine, you witness its decline into incompetence, with the costs in German lives rising with stupid decisions. Speer also addresses many questions, such as the extent of the regime's pursuit of a nuclear weapon and other high tech secret weapons. It is singularly illuminating.
Speer also chronicles how he began to fight Hitler, particularly after he ordered a scorched earth policy for inside of Germany, which would have destroyed its industrial base. Here Speer acts the hero, attempting to preserve factories and bridges as all order crumbles around them. In a startling transformation of loyalty that Speer cannot completely renounce, he recognises Hitler as a man devoid of human emotion and empathy, a kind of sociopathic murderer like those around him, though Speer exempts himself from these crimes in his deepest heart. This is a story of psychological deterioration and the acceptance of death as the only way out. While he fails to fully explain or comprehend Hitler, perhaps we never will; at any rate, Speer avoids simplitic psychological labels.
Finally, there is the Nuremberg trial, in which Speer claims he was truthful and accepted his guilt. While the reader must remain suspicious of Speer's persona here - it appeared nakedly self-seving to me, yet with an honest voice of remorse - he makes a good case for Germany's new course and the end of the Hitler myth.
All in all, this is one of the best hostoricl memoires I ever read. Warmly recommended.
Best Nazi CYA Autobiography........2006-09-15
You have to read this ,cum grano salis.Less than 100% is the complete truth.Why didn't the luft-mensch ,Rudolf Hess,write his own version of events? Hess' political blindness spoke louder than words.Out of sympathy ,the Brits (largely) spared Hess' life.It would have been among the top-ten WW11 books,til the end times.Dead men don't speak,and Albert Speer seized his only opportunity to save face.Speer was anothor brillant German figure,who got mixed into the Nazi vortex,and had his talents misdirected.So,when you read this interesting "Kriegzeit-Selbstschift",you have to look at Speer's readership.Take off the rose-coloured specks,and remember ,hindsight is always 20/20 and capable of revisionism.
"My sanitized memories".......2006-04-18
"My sanitized memories"
As Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny wrote on his own memories, after the war it was a very good idea to announce that you had been a dissident and an opponent against the regime of Adolf Hitler, and that maybe, Alber Speer was forced to write down those passages where he mentioned his plot to gas(!) the bunker of Hitler. Skorzeny expressed his derision and disbelief because he knew Speer and the impression he got, from Speer, was that of a commited man and of one who believed in the Third Reich and who was loyal to Hitler too.
Apart from the the written above this book is an execelent account of the war from the Nazi point of view and I highly recommend it.
a little dry.......2006-02-10
I'll be up front and say I never finished this book. I have about 70 reviews here and this is the only one on a book I never finished. It wasn't that it was terrible or lacking in information, it's just that it was so, so boring and superficial. All the encounters with Hitler had all the emotion of checking out a book from the library. The behind the scenes may have come later, but by a third of the way through I wasn't going to wait around to find out. Plus it was hard to overcome the feeling that there was no way this wasn't going to be a self-serving attempt by the author to restore his public image. Again, I didn't finish, so take my review for what it's worth, but it's rare that I read that far on a book and then find it so dull I lose all interest.
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There have been many histories of World War II and many analyses of the Third Reich, but few show what it was actually like to live under the Nazi regime. Inside Hitler's Germany attempts just that. Beginning with an examination of the early thirties, before the full horrors at the heart of the regime were evident, this extensively illustrated book looks at all aspects of life under Hitler's government.
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Basically excellent overview of the Third Reich.......2007-10-07
This is a very well-written book that is easy to follow and understand. Each chapter contains several nuggets or tidbits of interesting facts or statistics about the Nazi regime. Each chapter is also pretty much self-contained and can be read independently to learn about that particular topic. The breadth of the book is also a little more wide ranging than the title suggests: The chapters in the book include matters ocurring both before the establishment of the Third Reich (e.g., chapters on Hitler and life in Germany in the 1920s) and after the defeat of Nazi Germany (e.g., information on the struggles of the suffering of German civilians after the war), as well as a variety of topics on life during the Third Reich (e.g., the treatment of women, youth organizations, and resistance to the regime).
The photos are numerous and very well selected. For example, included are several rarely seen photos of major figures in the Third Reich (Hitler, Himmler, and Goering) at different stages of their lives.
What prevents a stellar rating, however, is that the book at times contains misinformation and even disinformation, including the text used for the captions of several of the photos.
One example is the book states that Hitler's party had enough seats in the Reichstag to make him Chancellor, which is true enough, but the context leads the reader to believe that Hitler's party had won both a majority of the popular vote and a majority of the seats in the Reichstag, neither of which is true.
Another example is the book states that upon capture German soldiers were just as likely to be treated well as mistreated by the Allies, which is generally true, then goes on for several pages recounting 6-7 stories by German soldiers who were treated well but only a single account where the Allies mistreated German prisoners of war, leaving the false impression that 9 times out of 10 German prisoners were treated with compassion by the Allies. (To its credit the book goes on to describe the inhumane conditions in the prisoner of war camps.)
By and large the book is an excellent and fairly balanced overview of the Third Reich, from the factors that led to its creation to the conditions in Germany after its downfall, and is far superior to a similar book I read some time ago (now out of print). Although several irksome misstatements in this book preclude a true 5-star rating, it is still recommended as a very fine general introduction to life in Germany before, during, and after the Third Reich.
An insightful peak into dayly life in Nazi Germany.......2006-05-07
In our current day of Activist Judges brazzenly legislating their own political agendas from the bench against the will of the people and corrupt politicians telling us they are only obeying orders allowing them to get away with it despite their rulings having No consititutional basis Can we really judge the German people giving up the corrupt Weimar Republic for Hitler's regime? Can we really blame them?
In this highly insightful book the reader really gets to look at what dayly life for average Germans was during the days of Hitler's dictatorship. Unless you were of Jewish ancestry or devout or left of centery or part of some group on the nazi hit list and unwilling to compromise your morals to the new regime, dayly life for the average German portrayed here was really not that bad as compared to what life was like for the average serf of the Soviet state.
The chapters are well illustrated by pictures and provide an infomative peak for what every aspect of dayly life was like for the average German of this period.
However, for me, like Spock says in Star Trek, Understanding does not mean approval.
Excellent look at life inside Nazi Germany.......2005-02-11
If you are interested in "social history" or what life was like living in Nazi Germany, than this book is a good jumping off point. The book is very well written, covers an array of differing topics, and is extremely well illustrated with numerous photographs, many of which I'd never seen before.
The content of the book itself is very good. I am a slow reader, but found myself reading a chapter a day. It features chapters on the war, economics, genocide, how the Nazis were formed and came to power, resistance movements, youth organizations, women in the Reich, and a brief bio of Hitler. The book does a good job of giving a general history of the war itself, but never straying too far from the point of the book--describing life in Nazi Germany. The book even features a two page glossary at the end with some definitions of terms. Overall, it is a wonderful read and is an excellent introdcution to life in Germany.
However, it does not get 5 stars for two reasons. First, as mentioned by a previous reviewer, I found the last chapter somewhat curious as the authors spent several pages quoting German soldiers who were captured by the Russians, but were treated well, which was not the norm. Then, they spent just a couple paragraphs describing the more common experience of being sent to gulags and not returning to Germany for several years, if at all. Second, although the authors obviously did a thorough amount of research, there are no footnotes, no endnotes, no bibliography page. As someone who received a B.A. in history, I was always taught to cite everything and the authors do not do this, which is frustrating because it does not allow the reader to verify their facts or to read further based upon their research.
A Powerful Overview of a Dark Time.......2004-06-13
Books about the rise and fall of the Third Reich usually suffer from two shortcomings. They tend to be extremely long and exquisitely detailed, which makes them hard to fit into a busy schedule. And they sometimes emphasize high level German politics and World War II without explaining what is was like for an ordinary person to live through the twelve brutal years of the "Thousand Year Reich."
"Insider Hitler's Germany", on the other hand, is a very approachable book that chronciles life in Germany after the Great War and during the Third Reich. The authors write in a clear and informative style, letting the facts speak for themselves.
Most of us assume that totalitarian Germany must have been a nightmare for the German citizens who lived through it. It certainly was for Germans who were Jewish or Communist or otherwise gave the slightest hint of being out of step with the Nazi Party. But many Germans experienced the 1930s as a golden age of low unemployment, vacations for the average worker, and resurgent national pride. For them, it was only the catastrophe of World War II that exposed the true horrors of Nazism.
The most striking feature of this book is the photography that it reproduces. All of the photos are in black and white, but many are amazingly crisp and filled with a chilling immediacy. One that really caught my attention was a photo of the Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg, which is now a pedestrian mall filled with the usual shops (including, of course, a McDonald's). I have walked down that street many times. The photo shows a procession of scholars from the university, but all of the buildings along the street are festooned with flags displaying the swastika of the Nazi party. The stunning contrast between then and now is sobering, and this photo (like the book as a whole) is a useful reminder that the abyss is often just a very short step away.
The effects on society of Hitler and his NAZI Revolution........2003-07-07
This is a pretty decent photo book about life in Hitler's thousand year Reich (although it only lasted 12 years). The authors do a rather solid job of covering the highs and lows of the NAZI regime. Many authors review the military aspect of the struggle, but this book covers the affects on the German society and population. The beginning chapters deal with Hitler and the rise of the NAZI party. Throughout the book are great pictures which summarize the life and death of NAZI Germany.
At only 210 pages, this is a good summary read of Hitler and his Germany. The only thing which I disagreed with was one of the final chapters on the Eastern Front. It had interviews with two German soldiers captured by the Russians. These soldiers stated they were fairly treated by the front line soldiers. I don't doubt that some German soldiers did get fair treatment by the Soviets but the overwhelming percentage were interned and fewer than 10 in 100 returned to Germany after the war. Other than that, a great read on a most dispictable man and his regime.
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'Remarkable....[a] vivid (and beautifully translated) account.'-Jerusalem Post Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day inthe ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state, to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin. Inside Hitler's Bunker combines meticulous research with spellbinding storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were nothing less than the end of the world.
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the dark, nihilistic end of the Thousand Year Reich .......2007-02-27
Fest's haunting description of the last days of the Third Reich is a magnificent accomplishment. Despite its brevity, Fest manages to weave larger historical issues into a narrative full of surreal, compelling details about the Nazis' end. There are the evocative stories of Berlin in turmoil: SS patrols summarily hanging whoever they felt was a shirker, citizens struggling to survive in the shelled-out ruin of a city, the Soviet encirclement growing ever closer. Meanwhile, inside the Hitler's bunker, the story of delusion and denial grew ever more fantastical -- Hitler commanding generals to counterattack the Russians with army units existing in his imagination, and growing more and more furious with their "betrayals" as the Russian advance still came on.
The story arrives ultimately at the Russian approach to the bunker and the suicides of Hitler, Eva Braun, and the inner circle. Their grimly nihilistic end, burned in a trashheap, paralleled their desire for the same fate for Germany. Hitler wanted Germany to go down with him. That so many in Berlin actually did follow him in suicide, or fighting the Russians to the end against suicidal odds, seems now almost too bewildering to believe. Fest's book is bleak, but in a straightforward journalistic style argues why the end in the bunker was the culmination of Hitler's theatrical, nihilistic vision.
Not a Worthwhile Text.......2007-01-12
I wish that I had read the negative reviews of this book and avoided it. This is a very poorly done account of Hitler's final days in the bunker. The book is poorly written, lacks linear progression, and provides an erratic treatment of the subject. The text itself is cobbled together in piecemeal fashion from other books on the subject - there seems little original here. Quotes about Hitler are often made without attribution leaving the reader to wonder whose opinion was being posited. Fest writes pages and pages of filler material consisting of his own amateur psychoanalysis of Hitler which adds nothing to the record and further sidetracks this work.
If you wish to read an engaging and informative account of Hitler's final days, skip Fest's book and read instead the book written by Hitler's secretary Traudle Junge's or Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting's book The Women Who Knew Hitler which chronicles Hitler's last days extremely well.
Brief look at Hitler's last days.......2006-08-31
While not as thorough as Anton Joachimstahler's or James P. O'Donnell's works on Hitler's last days, Fest provides a good introduction to the last month of Hitler and Nazi Germany's lives. The book somewhat bounces around between Hitler, the Soviet onslaught, and conditions in Berlin, but Fest does a pretty good job of balancing these and writing a readable book. Again, not the most detailed of accounts, but a good intro.
Interesting (Brief) Look at Hitler's Last Days.......2006-08-05
Basic facts and figures about the Third Reich are good data, but nothing can really help you understand the Hitler/Nazi phenomenon so well as reading his own words, and the words of the people who made his regime possible - in the volatile environment of Hitler's bunker in April, 1945.
Though the book is short, there is a lot to digest in it. I personally didn't feel that it was overly dry, or boring (at all!), particularly in comparison to your average history, but I was a little disappointed in the lack of bibliographical notes.
All in all, it's a good place to start, a good book to point you in the direction of the right questions to ask, to lead you to more in-depth information.
Brief, Dry and Disappointing.......2006-06-11
Mr. Fest is a competent writer, but his account here is dry, brief and for those with prior knowledge of the facts, this book is very disappointing.
For a period with such plots and subplots this book is surprisingly colorless.
For an excellent book on a decisive turning point in Third Reich history, I most warmly recommended `Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943'
By Antony Beevor.
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An utterly unique look inside the Third Reich. Loaded with photos.
Customer Reviews:
The inner workings of Speer (1905-81).......2006-05-06
This is the life and loves of Albert Speer. It does give us an insight as to what it was to live in HIS time and place. This shows that with the right attitude and a willingness to learn that you can go far. He was able to find unique solutions to common problems he used searchlights for dramatic effects and cement engines to keep trains going. No telling what we could have gained from his insight, if he had been able to contribute more than his memoirs.
The fact that he produced this book is a miracle in its self. Look at what he could do with a simple thing like searchlights. He would have been great with lasers. If you want to know more about other people and not just the mysterious Adolf, then your next book should be "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" by William Manchester
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Hawai'i Chronicles III: World War 2 in Hawaii, from the Pages of Paradise of the Pacific (Latitude 20 Books) (Latitude 20 Books)
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Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941--in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, "a date which will live in infamy." More than 350 Japanese bombers, fighters, and torpedo planes struck Hawaii in two waves, sinking or disabling eighteen ships and destroying more than two hundred aircraft. Close to 2,500 American military and civilians died that morning, another 1,178 were wounded. The Hawaiian Islands had been pulled into the Pacific War and the lives of its citizens were irrevocably changed.
Hawaii Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawaii looks at the human and social impact of the war on the people of Hawaii from 1938, when speculation of a Pacific War first surfaced, to the era of post-war prosperity that followed. Editor Bob Dye has selected articles that originally appeared in the popular monthly magazine Paradise of the Pacific (now known as HONOLULU magazine). An introduction describes the history of the magazine and the colorful characters who published and edited it. Dye then poses the question: How did Hawaii's citizenry cope with the war? Blackouts, media censorship, gas and food rationing were imposed. Schools were commandeered, jobs were changed or modified to support the war effort (lei makers were set to making camouflage netting). And soldiers were everywhere: stringing barbed wire (along Waikiki Beach!), guarding public buildings and searching anyone who entered, worrying parents when they dated their daughters. Paradise of the Pacific provided its readers with an informative, perceptive, and often entertaining look at these and other everyday experiences of life in wartime Hawaii.
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Interesting but leaves you wanting more.......2003-06-06
This is an interesting and well-chosen collection of columns and articles from Paradise of the Pacific, a leading magazine in Hawaii during World War II. I learned many facts and details that I didn't know and learned much about the attitudes that people had in Hawaii during the war.
I wished that the editors had also chosen to provide some background and interpretation for the audience coming along sixty years later. For example, when an article mentions in passing that Maui was shelled by the Japanese, I want to know more, because I never heard of the incident.
Overall, I enjoyed the book, but I wish there was a comprehensive modern account out there of Hawaii's role in the Second World War.
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