November 20, 2006

Book of the Week: Closing the Ring

It has been a few weeks since we have posted a Book-of-the-Week feature. Today I finally found time to sit down and finish Closing the Ring.

This fifth book in Winston Churchill's World War Two series covers the period from June, 1943 to the eve of D-Day in June of 1944. High points in the book include the Italian campaign and the Tehran conference.

The former is of interest to me because that is where the Brazilian forces saw action--although the only mention of them in this book is in one of the appendices. The recounting of the Tehran conference is interesting because of the personal accounts Churchill gives of interaction between the himself, Roosevelt, and Stalin.

I found this book to be not quite as gripping as the others in the series, but it lays the necessary groundwork for what was undoubtedly the climax of the war--to be covered in the last volume.

More Book-of-the-Week reviews can be seen here.

Posted by Andrew on November 20, 2006 4:35 PM.

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Posted by: Renae at November 26, 2006 11:08 PM