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So many books, so little time! We continue to receive review copies of interesting new WWII books from publishers from all over the world—we thank them profusely, and say "keep 'em coming"—at the same time we try to catch up after our recent enforced hiatus. We apologize for reviews neither as timely nor as extensive as we would prefer, as we try to get back to full speed.
ISBN 978-0-8018-9983-6
The author utilizes wartime newspapers to assemble dozens of brief pieces—most no more than a page or two long at most—about life in Baltimore, Maryland, during 1941-1945. Subjects range from rationing to bus routes to baseball to the USO to women in the work force, all centering around every day events in the city. Many of the snippets exude a wry or whimsical tone. The stories are laid out in more-or-less chronological sequence and interspersed with short notes about the progress of the war overseas. Photographs—mostly with fairly long captions—enhance almost every page.
ISBN 978-0-7864-4600-1
This revised, softcover edition of the 1996 hardcover version published by Naval Institute Press slightly updates the original with somewhat improved and expanded coverage of hundreds of US merchant vessels lost or damaged during the war. Each entry contains key data fields (such as name of vessel, date of event, time of attack, position, etc) as well as anywhere from a paragraph to a half-page of textual information about the incident. Further notes elaborate on sources, contradictions among sources, and missing information.
ISBN 978-1-84908-603-5
The battle for Wake Island might be the champion in the "most books about a minor engagement" department, and Moran's new title from Osprey certainly adds to that accretion of pages. Of course, these Osprey books always feature relatively brief, highly structured text (Origins, Chronology, Opposing Commanders, Opposing Force, Opposing Plans, the Battle, Aftermath) plus multitudes of photographs with very professionally executed maps and other graphics. Wake Island proves to be no exception in that realm, making it an especially attractive introduction to the battle.
ISBN 978-0-7603-4128-5
During the last seven or eight years, Harry Yeide has emerged as a prolific and increasingly important author of WWII-related books. With this title, his most recent, the author takes his work to a new level, producing a big, solid, serious book that transcends all his earlier output. Strictly speaking, he writes far less about Patton, or even the enemy perspective of Patton, and much more about the commanders and operations of units opposing Patton, so that this proves mostly a history of campaigns rather than any kind of biography. Nevertheless, Yeide includes a few chapters about Patton's youth and early years, including WWI. By far the majority of the book, however, deals with WWII, and almost half the pages cover the campaign in western Europe during 1944-1945.
Reviewed 2 October 2011
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Sandler, Gilbert. 
Browning jr, Robert M. 
Moran, Jim. 
Yeide, Harry.