{"id":18184,"date":"2015-09-13T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T09:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18184"},"modified":"2015-09-13T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T09:11:31","slug":"a-review-of-a-newish-history-of-the-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18184","title":{"rendered":"A review of a new(ish) history of the Second World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My summer reading has been a book that I&#8217;ve owned for four years but not read until now because the main text is 600 pages: <em>&#8220;The Storm Of War&#8221;<\/em> by\u00a0British historian Andrew Robert.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Yet 600 pages is not a lot to cover something as long and involved as the Second World War and I have to say that Roberts has produced a brilliant summary of this crucial period of history. You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#TSOW\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My summer reading has been a book that I&#8217;ve owned for four years but not read until now because the main text is 600 pages: &#8220;The Storm Of War&#8221; by\u00a0British historian Andrew Robert. Yet 600 pages is not a lot to cover something as long and involved as the Second World War and I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18186,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184\/revisions\/18186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}