Seesaw: How November ’42 Shaped the Future

by Stan Moore

Seesaw, How November ’42 Shaped the Future By late 1942, the world had been fighting World War Two for a long time with no end in sight. November of that year saw campaigns and battles which set the course of the rest of the war. Specific battles, decisions, and actions contributed to the war’s outcome. Those results continue to shape lives around the world. The author discusses what led up to the battles and campaigns of late 1942, and looks at how specific decisions and their effects are important to today’s world. Moore draws on new and unpublished letters and personal accounts. He also taps a wide range of books, journals, and research. Join the author as he explores personalities known and unknown, pivotal battles and decisions, and underlying reasons and motivations.

260 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2012

Reviews

[Martin Koenigsberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

By the time I was finished with this book, I came to see how it might be a good adjunct book to a grade school history syllabus, a way for kids to reinforce the ideas from class and other reading. For the first 50 pages or so- I found it the most cloyingly poorly written history book I had ever read. It is not labeled as a youth book, but the style is such that any adult will feel out of place immediately. The conceit is that we focus only on one month of the war, but the net effect is that the author ends up doing so much back filling story to explain each factor, that the book is a mess. A possible winner for the young and casual readers, but any serious history consumer will easily find other better choices...