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Richard Holmes was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois and Reading University. He was a member of the Department of War Studies at RMA Sandhurst between 1969 and 1985, when he left to command 2nd Battalion The Wessex Regiment. He was appointed Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University in 1995. Professor Holmes has written over a dozen books on military topics, is general editor of Oxford University Press's Companion to Military History and he has written and presented several television programmes, including two six-part BBC TWO series, War Walks I and War Walks II, as well as a series on the Western Front which was televised in the summer of 1999.
Published to accompany a BBC television series, Richard Holme's new book manages to avoid the usual compromises and weaknesses of such works. Rather than acting as an afterthought to the documentary, Battlefields of the Second World War stands in its own right, humane in tone, rigorously researched and well written. The only criticism one might level is that only four battles are covered, although it's worth pointing out that the battles are set within a wider campaign context. Thus, Alamein becomes the culmination of the desert war in North Africa, Monte Cassino includes the Italian Campaign, Arnhem considers the fighting in Northwest Europe and airborne operations in general, while the last 'battle' comprises the massive bomber offensive against Germany. Readers familiar with Holme's previous books will not be disappointed: he examines the wider strategic aspects of the battle and the drama's and dilemmas of high command, while providing detailed information and insightful comment from those caught up in the thick of the fighting. Review by ADRIAN GILBERT Editor's note: Adrian Gilbert is the author of Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War. (Kirkus UK)
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