The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
by Jeff Shaara
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Author: Jeff ShaaraEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN: 0345461371
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Reviews of The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
Book Review: Disappointing, Mediocre
Summary: 2 Stars
Poor Jeff - he has to live in the shadow of his father, Michael Shaara, who wrote the excellent novel Killer Angels. I thought Jeff did a good job with his civil war novels, and ok with the WWI novel.
This book is not exciting. The author gives the reader a long (over 100 pages) background of WWII. I do not think that is needed - who but WWII buffs are going to read this? That makes all of the background history unnessary. When you finally do get into the dialogue between the characters, it is two dimensional and reveals nothing new. I think the author should challenge himself and the reader providing something unique.
As other reviewers have pointed out, there are technical errors in the book as well, which means you have to take that aspect of the book with a grain of salt - so why bother?
Don't believe me - take it from the author himself - he says in his own introduction, what can he possibly add to all that has already been written about WWII? Indeed, Jeff, good question.
Summary of The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century. The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation's most poignant chronicle of World War II. With you-are-there immediacy, painstaking historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events that pulled America into the vortex of this monumental conflict.As Hitler conquers Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, England struggles to hold the line. When Germany's ally Japan launches a stunning attack on Pearl Harbor, America is drawn into the war, fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific, while standing side-by-side with their British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war.
Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North Africa and the rugged countryside of Sicily, Shaara tells this story through the voices of this conflict's most heroic figures, some familiar, some unknown. As British and American forces strike into the "soft underbelly" of Hitler's Fortress Europa, the new weapons of war come clearly into focus. In North Africa, tank battles unfold in a tapestry of dust and fire unlike any the world has ever seen. In Sicily, the Allies attack their enemy with a barely tested weapon: the paratrooper. As battles rage along the coasts of the Mediterranean, the momentum of the war begins to shift, setting the stage for the massive invasion of France, at a seaside resort called Normandy.
More than an unprecedented and intimate portrait of those who waged this astonishing global war, The Rising Tide is a vivid gallery of characters both immortal and unknown: the as-yet obscure administrator Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose tireless efficiency helped win the war; his subordinates, clashing in both style and personality, from George Patton and Mark Clark to Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery. In the desolate hills and deserts, the Allies confront Erwin Rommel, the battlefield genius known as "the Desert Fox," a wounded beast who hands the Americans their first humiliating defeat in the European theater of the war. From tank driver to paratrooper to the men who gave the commands, Shaara's stirring portrayals bring the heroic and the tragic to life in brilliant detail.
A new level of accomplishment from this already acclaimed author, The Rising Tide will leave readers eager for the next volume of this superb saga of the war that saved and changed the world.
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