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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About World War II by Mike Wright, Mike Wright ISBN: 0-89141-723-0 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Some interesting stuff, but not that unique
Comment: There is some interesting stuff in this book, but it's not the treasure trove of trivia that the back cover's reviews make it out to be. A lot of the information in the book can be found out by reading one of the large single-volume WWII books. And you get a complete history of the war with those, and without the editorializing.
And the editorializing in the book shows that Mr. Wright must have liberal leanings, since he writes from the perspective of today's political correctness with no regard for the times or for the simple fact that war is messy, and decisions need to be made in the heat of battle without the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.
Rating: 3
Summary: What They Can't Teach You!
Comment: The criticism of academic history taught in schools is that it is an endless list of dates, battles, and important people. Because anything other than such strictly objective facts can create a controversy. Concentrating on the lives of the common people would not have been politically correct in older times.
Mike Wright's experience as a TV writer and producer allows him to pick interesting stories to educate and entertain the reader. The nine pages of Bibliography must have omitted over nine-tenths of the books published in the previous fifty years. I'll guess he could have written nine more books on WW II without repetition.
This book should be read as an overall guide to WW II history, or as an introduction to the many, many books that deal with a particular topic - in English.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not bad for a subjective viewpoint . . .
Comment: Some interesting information, though I could tell that the author is a left-wing liberal. In the section "Leaders Who Went to War" he talks about all the presidents who served in WWII. When discussing any Republicans, he tends to be negative, and when dicussing any Democrats, he glosses over any failings they may have had. Also when dicussing the prejudices that minorities and women faced then, he criticizes from today's viewpoint. However much we may dislike a part of history that doesn't toe the line with our politically correct times, we must see them in relevance to that period in history. What happened then was wrong, but we have made great strides since then. I have always considered myself an indepedent in political terms and if I had written this book or one like it, I would tried tried a little harder than Mr. Wright to keep my biases out of it. When I read history, I want the facts, not subjective opinions based on someone else's political leanings.
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War by Mike Wright ISBN: 0891416544 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the American Revolution by Mike Wright, Mike Wright ISBN: 089141746X Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 04 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the 60s by Mike Wright ISBN: 0891417249 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 12 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: What They Didn't Teach You About the Wild West by MIKE WRIGHT ISBN: 0891416900 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 19 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Not So!: Popular Myths About America's Past from Columbus to Clinton by Paul F. Boller ISBN: 0195109724 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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