The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
by Jeff Shaara
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Author: Jeff ShaaraEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-13
ISBN: 0345461428
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Summary: 2 Stars
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The Steel Wave
By Jeff Shaara
In this World War II historical novel, the second of an announced trilogy, author Shaara focuses on the role of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division training in England, night landing by parachute in Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944 and fighting as point infantry for the next three months before being sent back to England for rest.
The author's descriptions of individuals in battle are compelling. Through his words, this reader could hear the sounds of battle and feel for the efforts of the individual soldiers.
Other than the well written battle scenes, to this reviewer this book seemed like a reading of the script for The Longest Day, a movie that is shown on television at least twice a year. Also, the historical novels D Day and Citizen Soldiers by Steven Ambrose cover much the same territory with more emphasis on the 101st Airborne Division.
There seems to be little new information or insights in The Steel Wave that have not been covered adequately in earlier volumes about U. S. Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, George S. Patton, James Gavin and Matthew Ridgeway; Britons Winston Churchill, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery or Air Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder; and Germans such as Adolph Hitler and Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
As other writers have done, Shaara points out the wouldas, couldas and shouldas that no one can foresee in war. These, too, have been well covered in other, earlier volumes.
Reviewed by: A. J. Goldsmith
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