[Linderman's] mournful, compelling history is the best of the books discussed here, an enduring work in the field...No one will soon surpass Linderman in treating the American combat experience so comprehensively, frankly, and humanely. Summoning both enormous empathy for servicemen and the scholar's critical distance from them, Linderman identifies many qualities among them--their individualism and initiative, for example...Linderman's infinitely modulated account honors, but also demythologizes, the small fraction of Americans in uniform who entered combat...The World Within War persuasively challenges, without wholly demolishing, images of World War II as a "good war."
-- Michael Sherry Chronicle of Higher Education
Destined to rank among the finest books about the American fighting experience in World War II.
-- New York Times Book Review
An eminent social historian who writes of combat like a novelist, Linderman tells what it was really like to experience combat in World War II.
-- John Lehman Wall Street Journal
A shocking, gripping survey of one war's battlefield mind-set.
-- Publishers Weekly
The World Within War views the war without nostalgic or romantic filters. Rather it presents a sober, insightful treatment of battlefield realities
[and] engages in detailed, skillful analysis of expectations, dangers and appeals of combat
For a thought provoking account of combat's ambiguities and pressures, investigate The World Within War.
-- Chaplain Kenneth L. Sampson Army Chaplaincy