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Charles Whiting

As a historical writer Charles Whiting, in the parlance of our favored American pastime, is a solid hitter with a decent average of ground-rule doubles and an occasional triple with little evidence of a power stoke. Fortunately, "America's Forgotten Army: The Story of the U.S. Seventh" keeps up Whiting's average but does nothing to suggest a reader will see him hit one 'out of the park'. The title and subtitle alone suggest something more impressive than the reader gets. Whiting is certainly a prolific writer but maybe he should concentrate more on quality than quantity. Like so many of his books "America's Forgotten Army" is quite mediocre in its presentation, in this case leading to little improvement on the 'forgotten' nature of the Seventh's time in WWII (as suggested by the subtitle). As is also common of Whiting's works, he doesn't really do justice to the previous literature. For example, Whiting fails completely to utilize "Riviera to the Rhine", the official US Army history of Sixth Army group in the ETO, as a source of information. Whiting's minimal use of previous works also tends to leave the reader feeling as if Whiting is truly telling "the story of the Seventh" for the first time...don't be fooled. Aside from the official US Army accounts there are others, including one that uses essentially the same subtitle: "Destination Berchtesgaden: The story of the United States Seventh Army in World War II" by John F. Turner, published in 1975!! The conspicuous lack of reference to other secondary sources, and virtual absence of primary source works, is a common theme with Whiting's works. As such it is hard to see where he is contributing to the historical base other than rehashing 'old' stories. Fortunately for those of us happy to see important stories of WWII out in the public eye, Whiting has reached the popular press and viewing public, more so than earlier sources covering the same topics (that Whiting neglects to cite).


Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2001
Editorial St Martins Mass Market
Categoría Historia


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