World War II

by Sean Connolly

Uses primary source materials to describe the events of World War II.

Genres: Nonfiction

56 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Sean Connolly will be familiar to listeners of BBC Radio Five Live and Radio Wales. Among his more than 50 books aimed at children and adults are Wholly Irresponsible Experiments and Witness to History: The Industrial Revolution. He has also written for the Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia. His three children are either collaborators or guinea pigs, depending on the project.

Reviews

[Rishima Parekh]

Good book to read if you want to know what or how much issues were occurring during world war 2. This books give great facts and has good details about almost everything.

[Gretchen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, along with a companion book Witness to History: World War II Home Front, will give the students some great sources to go to in order to read and understand some primary source material for the war. It is a little advanced for them, but, the variety of source material is great along with the pictures and the general explanations for each section. This would not be a book I would recommend the students read as a whole, but like a great deal of non-fiction, I would recommend they choose a page or two that go along with their area of interest and really close read the source material to form some of their own opinions. I think reading and annotating one or two of this together as a class could be a great lesson.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good overview of the war and all aspects of it. But it did feel a bit like whip lash like you had to absorb a lot of details and experiences. Each different thing about the war was given two pages, one of information and one of a first hand source. There was a lot of good information and the first hand sources were really good. But it was really difficult to go from one piece to the next. It was hard to get into or get into a flow of the story.
Very informative and a short quick read.

[Rocky · Rating 5 out of 5]

The content of this book was interesting and fully amazing.The words used was excellent.
It fully touches on the second world wars happening all across the Earth.
I rated it 5 out of 5 stars as it completely described how people cope or bear with the bombings and suffering during that painful period of time.

[Mohamed Yahia · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy this book at all. It was very boring and confusing. It talked about soldiers life in world war 2. They talk about too many things at the same time. I gave this book 1 star because it was not something I liked and I don't recommend this book to any of my friends.

[mlb]

6gr +