Book Review #3: True Stories of the Second World War

          True Stories of the Second World War, by Paul Dowswell, is a book that has a bunch of stories from World War II. From epic naval encounters between titanic warships, to duels between lone snipers facing certain death, this book has it all. The stories in this book are not just from the allied perspective, but from the the Japanese and German perspective too. One of those is the story Adolf Eichmann and his idea for "the final solution". In each of these stories they follow a certain person, even when there's a story on a big battle.
          The theme in this book is leadership. In every story they follow a leader and tell how they helped the situation. Without leaders in these stories, events could have turned out differently. For example, in the story "Death of a sales girl", they followed Violette Szabo. She was a British spy who changed the course of the war. Without her, the was could have turned out differently. She was a leader, along with all of the people that these stories follow.
          I enjoyed this book very much. I learned so much from it. A lot of the people and events that were talked about, I had never heard of. I would recommend this book to most people. I say most people because a lot of these stories are sad and very tragic. I know some people are prone to not like those kind of stories, so I recommend this book to everybody, but them. I was very happy with this book.
          For the people who want to read this book, I have some favorites in this book. First, I enjoyed the story "...like running through the rain and not getting wet". It was impressive. It is about the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945. Next, "Cracking Enigma", was about decoding the German Navy's secret code. Lastly, "Stalin's Female Falcons", is about the women in Soviet Air Force, and there efforts throughout the war.


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