The Steel Wave : A Novel of World War II (Paperback)

from ZoharLaor

This is the second book of a trilogy by Jeff Shaara (the first being "The Rising Tide) of what's being called "fictional history". The topic for this book is the events leading up and after D-Day (January thru September 1944) seeing through the eyes of the aggressor (Eisenhower), the defender (Ro...

from Karlstar

A good personal history of the war in Europe in 1944, focusing exclusively on the invasion of France and the weeks after. Like all Shaara novels, this more of a story told from the first person perspective of actual historical figures, based on their writings or writings about them. It is light o...

from piersanti

I never studied a great deal about World War II, so much of what this book covers was very new to me. The characters in the book are real people (many having left personal journals or having been interviewed by the author) and so there is always the sense that nothing is being exaggerated and eve...

from Karlstar

A good personal history of the war in Europe in 1944, focusing exclusively on the invasion of France and the weeks after. Like all Shaara novels, this more of a story told from the first person perspective of actual historical figures, based on their writings or writings about them. It is light o...

from brainella

Part two of the trilogy on WWII. This novel sees D-Day from the perspectives of Eisenhower, Patton, Rommel and Jesse Adams (a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne). I very much enjoy seeing the various areas of the war through the eyes of these men. They have different objectives, personalities and r...