Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (Paul Thomas Chamberlin - WH) nesbitt Kentucky saw some of the

Kentucky saw some of the earliest fighting in the war

With his parents and two siblings gone and two more taken captive

and countless ordinary men and women

poor planning and coordination

The result is a well-illustrated and mapped readable tactical and leadership account that will please the most discriminating reader

Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (Paul Thomas Chamberlin - WH) nesbitt Kentucky saw some of theIn popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of