(07-17-2012, 11:54 AM)Matt W Wrote: Norman Davies wrote a fascinating book on WW II in Europe whose name completely escapes me at this point and since I'm not home I can't figure it out right now.
"The War In Europe"
Matt that book is an engrossing read and should be on the lists of any WW2 buff that has a habit towards Westcentricity so as to show just how immense the 'Total War' was in the east.
Funnily enough, Mark Pitcabbage was denigrating Davies' work on a thread somewhere on CSW, or if not denigrating, at least displaying a lack of love for his work. Apart from referring to him as a Polonophile (which he admittedly is very much so), there are allegedly some points in his other work that MP was not happy about (such as the names used for Polish main characters which were different from those used in other works, and some other points which I will stay away from here). Personally, the two books I have read of Davies have been interesting to say the least, neither of which are ones referred to by MP, and also, having met the man in a seminar in our force's History Society at Scotland Yard, he was very charming. I'm attending one held by Mr Roger Moorhouse in August (writer of 'Berlin At War').
So to end, yes, I would recommend that book as a read, but that said, I am a bit of a stats freak anyway
