Reviews for How to Prepare for the Ap European History Advanced Placement Examination

The average rating for How to Prepare for the Ap European History Advanced Placement Examination based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-16 00:00:00 Edgar Sosa Corona This book, written in 1971 is filled with amazing first person accounts of life in Britain during World War II. It's obviously been used by other authors as a source of material as many stories in this book can be found in newer books. Every aspect of life during the war years is covered, using the memories and diaries of people who lived through them. Now that the war generation is passing into history, books such as this one, written when these people were still alive to be interviewed, become invaluable. This book is a treasure trove; I highly recommend it for those interested in this time period.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-07 00:00:00 Dennis Richards World War II was in many instances the defining event for modern Britain. It lasted 6 long years, two of which they were fighting Germany alone. Norman Longmate gives us an encyclopedic look at what it was like to live in the UK during those years, From rationing (which lasted until 1954) to mandatory national service for anyone under the age of 60, to the nightly bombing during the Blitz (and later attacks by V-1 and V-2 rockets) to the more friendly, but still disconcerting invasion of over a million foreign troops. one can only have boundless admiration for the British people who not only managed to keep on going, but who were remarkably cheerful about it. Today we fight ugly little wars in faraway places and no one except the families of our all volunteer armed services make any kind of sacrifice. It's instructive to read a book like this to see what people had to do when they were literally with their backs to the wall trying to save western civilization.