The title says it all, but doesn't express how well written and entertaining this book was. It's the odd additions of little known (at least to me) facts that makes the history come alive.
Obviously the period is very quickly looked over, but it gives you a real idea of the sweep of battles and events and reasons behind the happenings of the times. ( )

This book contains some interesting perspectives on the war, but is flawed by numerous factual and chronological errors. Part of the problem may be that the entire war is covered in what amounts to an extended essay. While the brevity is a virture, in that it allows the whole war to be summarized in a weekend's reading, the need to condense the narrative leads to errors of omission and simplification that are misleading to the reader attempting to understand this most complicated of struggles. I enjoyed some of the book and was annoyed by some of it. In any event I would not recommend it to the reader who was going to rely upon it as their sole source of information on World War Two. ( )