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Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War 2 (Men at War)
by Hanson W. Baldwin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: William S. Konecky Associates (2000-04)
ISBN: 1568520107
EAN: 9781568520100
Hardcover: 532 pages
SKU: 42100
Condition: New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! 2001. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION, EARLY PRINT. WITH TERRIFIC PHOTOGRAPHS! HARDCOVER WITH GILT LETTERING AND PAGES ARE NEW! RAPID SHIPPING W/FREE TRACKING, GREAT PACKAGING. Air Mail. PK,
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In Battles Lost & Won: Great Campaigns of World War II, military editor and analyst of the New York Times, Hanson Baldwin evaluates eleven crucial battles, describing what happened in each and why. In the words of the author, "each [of these battles] was an entity; many were a turning point; upon some the scales of history rested." The battles analyzed are the Polish campaign, the battle of Britain, the invasion of Crete, the fall of Corregidor, Stalingrad, the Sicilian campaign, Tarawa, the invasion of Normandy, Leyte Gulf, the battle of the Bulge and Okinawa.
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Customer Reviews
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Worth a read!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-20
Interesting perspectives, very well written, on some of WWII's most noteworthy battles. A good addition to the WW II history buff's library--even though much of this ground has been trod before!
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The Book Won
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-02-08
35 out of 37 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is as fresh in my mind today as it was when I read it years ago. The author had a way of describing events as if they are in the present. Mentioning people who participated in these campaigns, made it feel like you knew them when they were there.
As it is about eleven battles, it is eleven short stories. For a reader who likes to skip around a lot, like me, this made it all the more pleasureable.
Hanson Baldwin does present only one pivotal battle of WW 2, Stalingrad. He does not present the other two: Midway or El Alamein, but that is author's prerogative as far as I am concerned.
I recommend that you exercise your prerogative to buy the book if you enjoy military history. The author can make you feel like you were there.
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Left Out the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
Rating  (2)
Date: 2003-07-01
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Incredibly, Baldwin's book omits one of the most important U.S. battles won against the Japanese during World War II, the sea-battle at Midway and the following land-battle at Guadalcanal. Robert Leckie in his book, Delivered from Evil, says it best. About the battles for Midway and Gaudalcanal, Leckie writes:"For the first time in 350 years Japan had suffered a naval defeat. In a single day's fighting, all the advantages gained at Pearl Harbor lay with his [Yamamoto's] four sunken carriers at the bottom of the sea. Parity in carrier power between Japan and the United States had been restored at 6 to 6, and the cream of Japan's naval aviators had been lost. ... The Japanese victory flood had been checked six months after it began. But although the tide had been turned, it was now necessary for the Americans to pursue the advantage on land.
Just as Nelson's sea victory at Trafalgar gave Wellington the chance to destroy Napoleon at Waterloo, Nimitz's triumph at Midway made possible the irreversible tide-turning land battle soon to be fought at a then-unknown island in the Southwest Pacific.
Gaudalcanal." If you want to read about these same battles lost & won during World War II, buy Leckie's book instead.
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Excellent military history of WW@
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-05-19
6 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hanson Baldwin's military history of WW2 is an excellent analysis of eleven individual battles ranging from the invasion of Poland through the battle of Okinawa. Instead of giving a complete history of the war, he focuses on individual battles: what happened; mistakes made by allies and axis powers, etc. It is written in a quick paced, journalistic style. This is attributable to Baldwin's many years as a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. In addition to an excellent read, it is expertly footnoted. The footnotes add fascinating insight to these events touching upon small, but but vital and interesting aspects of the battles covered. All in all, an excellent read.
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