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| | Second World War Books: Review |
 | | Ryan interviewed hundreds of civilians and soldiers from many nations to prepare these books, filling them in large measure with eyewitness accounts and the ground-level stories of men and women caught in the blast of events. |
 | | Despite the emphasis on individual memories, Ryan carefully weaves the threads of personal vignettes into a coherent tapestry displaying the broader pattern of the unfolding campaigns. |
 | | Of course, Ryan with his journalist's credentials also had access to generals such as Eisenhower, Bradley, Montgomery, Rundstedt, Student, Heinrici, Koniev, Rokossovskii, and Chuikov, so not all his sources spent all their time in foxholes. |
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