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Title: The Last European War: September 1939 - December 1941 by John Lukacs ISBN: 0-300-08915-5 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Spirit over matter..
Comment: The Last European War by John Lukacs
"The Last European War" by John Lukacs describes the formative stages of the WWII, times of 1939 before Hitler's invasion of Russia when the war was dominated by the struggle between Britain and Germany. Drawn from and partially re-hashing the material found in some of his earlier book, John Lukacs paints a picture of power struggle with some master strokes worthy of a pen of a historian and the canvas of a novelist.
Lukacs book is comprised of 2 part. First, a short one, tells the historical events of the period starting just before September 1, 1939 and ending with the guns of Barbarossa in the East on June 22, 1941. His main emphasis is the description of the personalities of Hitler and Churchill, touching on Stalin and briefly on Roosevelt. Second part, which is the main body and emphasis of the text, is a study of how people coped during the war from economic, social, psychological and anthropological perspectives.
Lukacs advances the main thesis of his career, retold in most of his 18 books on history, that the advance of nationalism not communism was the main event of the 20th century history; and that the main lesson of it is prevalence of mind over matter. Philosophy of neo-idealism, of belief in primary importance of spirit in the conduct of human affairs, the fruit of primarily German romanticism were horrible catastrophes of 20th century.
John Lukacs has just a wonderful touch of novelistic flair, where he would briefly interrupt a technical description of the diplomatic struggles with the description of the beatifull night full of starts. His appreciation of oratory of the two main rivals (and both Hitler and Churchill were brilliant public speakers) leads to some of the best pages of this book.
Better then any other historian I've read, John Lukacs is a master of a footnote. On average each page is supplemented by at least 3 footnotes; sometimes footnote text is twice as large as the main text on the page. Whether it is a fault of the editors whom Lukacs bullied into submission by this fame, or something else, I do not know. What I know is that it makes it for some fragmentary, oftern confused and difficult read. This is the only major criticism of style, and I am penalizing this book one star for it.
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Title: The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler by John Lukacs ISBN: 0300089163 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: How to Read Church History: From the Beginnings to the Fifteenth Century by Jean Comby ISBN: 0824507223 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: December, 1985 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. by John Lukacs ISBN: 0300097697 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: At the End of an Age by John Lukacs ISBN: 0300092962 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Compact History of the Catholic Church by Alan Schreck ISBN: 0892833289 Publisher: Servant Publications Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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