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Nine Things I Didn’t Know About World War II
2024/06/26 Report

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Three years ago, I set out to write a book about World War II, which is a bit like Christopher Columbus setting out to discover Portugal. Global bookshelves are filled with scholarly narratives of the war, and most are so thoroughly comprehensive they leave no stone unturned. But therein lies their drawback.


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While such 700-page tomes are certainly well-suited for military history enthusiasts, they are beyond daunting for scores of other readers, particularly those keen to understand the broader brush strokes without esoteric analyses of Charlie Company’s assault on Hill 123 or the climbing speed of the Messerschmitt 109E.

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