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Why the Allies Won
by: R.J. Overy

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781845950651
ISBN: 1845950658
Label: Pimlico
Manufacturer: Pimlico
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 07, 2006
Publisher: Pimlico
Studio: Pimlico
Sales Rank: 41916

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Interesting, diverting
Firstly, this is a far from comprehensive view of the war, as some reviewers have pointed out. Then again, with a conflict as big and sprawling (and as heavily reasearched and written about) as WW2, we can hardly be surprised by this. What the author does do is bring together some very interesting analysis to parts of the war often overlooked, and comes to some quite interesting conclusions.

The analysis that bears the most fruit is that of the economies of WW2, and the contrast between the Axis and Allied powers in how they understood what Total War meant. For the Axis powers, they didn't get it. Germany is a good example - lauded for the technical sophistication of its blitzkrieg forces, it failed decisively to understand that ... Read More:

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- All the facts and figures you'll ever need...
Overy goes into great depth to find why the Allies won, or in somecases as he put it, how the Axis lost the war.

He examines nearly every possible reason for the Allied victory and backs each point with a great array of statistics.

This is a great book about how the Second World War was won.

Rating:

- Can't say I'd recommend it
Overy asks the question of "Why the allies won?" His first task is to explain away the idea that the allies, namely the US, England and Soviet Union were successful due to their numbers when compared to that of the axis. Drawing on the First World War, Overy shows that numbers, in terms of troops, does not necessarily define who the victor will be. When WWI began the entente had a great advantage in terms of divisions compared to that of Germany and Austria, for some reason Overy excludes the Ottoman empire in his calculations and also ignores the fact that the number of men in one country's division will not necessarily equal that of another.

The next area of interest is the production figures of both sides. While Germany had a ... Read More:

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- Terrible, full of historical errors and misrepresentation of truth
I bought this book after having in recommended to me by several people as a definitive study into why the allies actually won the war as oppose to the Axis forces, but what I found was a book recycling the same old material and answers covered in many other books but allot poorer, there is hardly anything new here.

However some parts of this book are good, for example, where the author covers the areas of industry and the Manhattan Project in more detail then you usually see.

However the rest of the book I find terrible, full of historical errors or grammatical ones too, which ruin what the author is attempting state.

For example, at one point in his book he claims that the T34 during the early war years ... Read More:

Rating:

- Essential reading
I have nothing to add to the other reviews, save to say that this book (the second edition, published in 2005) deserves five stars and is essential reading for anyone studying the Second World War. It is not a general history of the war, but, as the title indicates, concentrates on the reasons behind the Allies' victory.

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