World War II

Biography Profile Series #2

by Aaron Rosenberg

Full-color series--six bios in one! It takes more than one person to bring about change and innovation. Find out how key players from yesterday and today influenced and interacted with each other during some of the world's most memorable periods. So much more than just your typical biography, Profiles focuses on six of the most prominent figures during World War II. This book includes all of the biographical information kids need to know (background, family, education, accomplishments, etc.) about FDR, Churchill, Eisenhower, Hitler, Stalin, and Hirohito. Photographs, maps, and quotes will be interwoven throughout the text.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

Aaron Rosenberg is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, children’s book author, and game designer. He's written original fiction (including the NOOK-bestselling humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the O.C.L.T. supernatural thriller series), tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled for Eureka), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), children's books (including an original Scholastic Bestseller series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter @gryphonrose.

Reviews

[Kayli · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a quick introduction for children to the six leaders of World War II: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Each leader gets a chapter that explores the trajectory of their lives from childhood to adulthood and obviously the war itself. As a historian who has spent a lot of her time researching WWII, I thought this was an excellent mini introduction to the war and its leaders. You can also easily read this out of order if you have specific interests such as just focusing on the presidents. There is a little glossary in the back for comprehension, which would be helpful for any student or teacher. I also appreciated the little selection of speeches and essays by the leaders so that children can see what was actually said to the public. I gave this three out of five stars and would recommend it primarily for children or teachers but it is an easy introduction for all.

[Priya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I borrowed this book from my nephew, who is in 8th grade. It's a quick guide to some important personalities of the world war 2. The book is interesting with pictures and a nice font. Never knew about Japanese emperor's role in the war, now the events of the war make more sense, when we look from the perspective of these 6 people.

[Landen Sweigart · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good book with very good information about the leaders during WWII.

[Tyler Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about 6 war leaders and they all wanted to win the war, they all really put up a fight, Hitler was the leader (chancellor) of Germany of and he broke the treaty of Versailles, expanding his army over 10 000 troops and attacked every Jewish person he could find and/or put them in a place people called “The Holocaust”.
But Hitler wanted a good life but he could never get what he wanted, he want to become an artist but no university would accept him.
He was invited into a Nazi party and basically from there he was a monster.
All the other leaders like: Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, and Dwight D. Eisenhower were all understandable, they all helped each other, though Hitler seen as a monster he made alliances with some of these people like: Josef Stalin and others, but he made a mistake and betrayed everyone one that he teamed with.
By 1945 the war ended and Hitler had killed himself, and the N.A.T.O. treaty was created. The war was officially over.


This book was amazing to read, it was most interesting to read about Dwight D. Eisenhower because his life was very interesting, he never went to war itself but he planned attacks for the U.S and most were successful.
Adolf Hitler was interesting too; as I read about him it answered a lot of my questions I had been asking myself.
Hitler made a lot of decisions that scared Germany; a lot of people that were German were still scared of Hitler just as much as everyone else was. But in the end they overcame Hitler’s wraith.

All-though this book was perfect I wish it was longer because I would like to know more about the people in this book.
But overall I would recommend this book to others.

-Tyler Wilson

[Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book of six bios of people from World War II.
This book is full of interesting facts!
Did you know Hitler was liked by students and teachers in schools?
Did you know Dwight Eisenhower's name at birth was actually David?
Did you know Hirohito died after months of digestive problems?
This book tells each story from birth to death and you will see how each of them made an impact on one another.
This is a great book for anyone interested in World War II, heroes, presidents around World War II, and the Holocaust.

[Patty Schuster · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was also very in depth about World War II. Included bios about hurler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hirohito, and Eisenhower. The book explained about there childhood, where they went to school, there families, and what they accomplished over there lives. Very interesting book but would be hard for children to understand fully. It would be a good book to use for projects maybe for third or fourth graders.

[Conner Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

World War two by Aaron Rosenberg is about six people that made a impact on World War two. They are Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. It tells about each person childhood and what they did in World War two. Learn about World War two. I recommend this book two people who like history.

[Ethan Benas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book in my opinion because I taught me about the leaders who they were and how they got there. I know some stuff about these people and who they were but this book told me what they did after the war also not just what they did during the war. That's why I give this book a 4-star rating.

[Spacek Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

This provides a lot of good information about key players of World Ware II. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it for any elementary-aged student doing research on WWII. The author did a wonderful job describing how each of the characters were tied to each other.

[Sierra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brief bios which cover pre-WWII through post-WWII on 6 key figures. The time span helps connect & explain events which led to WWII. Colorful & includes images w/ captions.