Reddit reviews The Second World War

I know you were jist giving an example question, but whilst we are on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-War-Antony-Beevor/dp/0316023744/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372582993&sr=1-1&keywords=antony+beevor

The war was not given the title of "World War" for nothing. If we look beyond the European theater of operations, you have the eastern front for example (which some include in the ETO). Further beyond that, you've got the African campaigns (North, East, West) and the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon and Iraq to name the major ones). The Pacific portion of the war was a very large part of the war, something you could easily look up by a simple Google search. In there, you will find things such as fighting on pacific islands, in India and Burma, on mainland China and even on the Aleutian Islands, a part of Alaska.

This is an incredibly quick summary of some of the battlegrounds of WWII. There is certainly more to add. You can easily find more information through any general book on World War II. I know, for example, that the popular historian Antony Beevor recently released an all-covering book on WWII.

No better place to start than Anthony Beevor's The Second World War ;)

You just need to find a more in-depth military history account of the Americans. Marshall probably doesn't get enough credit for his contributions to American war planning before and during the war, perhaps because he didn't get to take photos with fighting soldiers and battles are usually what's considered interesting about war.

I've been reading this book and Marshall does come across as the 'main character' of the American sphere, at least until Eisenhower was given more responsibilities.

I was able to find a few more sources of information about him.

This book isn't entirely about him, but apparently it starts off with his story.

Here's an essay written on him by the gentleman who wrote the book.

Here's where I found those other links.

> The difference though is that once a man is in a parachute, he's no longer a threat.

But those little German schoolchildren he bombed before bailing were obviously threats. It's a little nuts to hope a guy acts rationally and doesn't do something "out of spite" if you decide to drop bombs on civilians in his home country.

> The British exercised the same restraint during the blitz even when the Germans bombed civilian locations, of course they captured those who bailed as POW's but they didn't shoot them as they fell out of anger or bloodlust.

Not exactly accurate. Civilians went out to beat German pilots with farm implements and shotguns. Polish pilots flying for Britain during the Blitz flew over German parachutes to force their collapse, resulting in the Germans plummeting to their deaths. Antony Beever covers this in The Second World War.