The Library Journal review states: "With this powerful collection of primary documents, Goldberg (D-Day in the Pacific) amplifies the voices best equipped to communicate the complicated viewpoints and raw emotion of World War II. These texts tell the story more vividly than any neatly linear, retrospectively composed narrative could. An introduction offers a survey of events spurring that conflict. Eight chapters follow, each associated with a major turning point, like “Victory at Stalingrad,” and containing major headlines, personal letters, trial testimony, even prisoner poetry. This amazingly valuable book, which presents objective documentation rather than subjective interpretation, is essential for all history collections."
