SuitabookSecond World War
David Horner
- Reading
- Read a section at a time and pause to locate each campaign in the wider course of the war. This can help keep the military events and their regional consequences in view.
- Themes
- A broad view of the Pacific conflict: The primer covers major campaigns and includes sections on a soldier and a civilian, alongside the conflict’s effects on Asia and European colonial power. Its stated approach is explanatory: it treats the war as a complicated conflict and connects campaigns with wider historical change.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes intense wartime material: naval and jungle battles, deaths, atomic bombings and surrender. Consider whether this level of historical violence is comfortable to read about together.