The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara
![Image](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZbSlZOsydWrjoNKCbrvLN5CQaWV4DvOmIMn6crzjHYv1Nw6AIvlsflwO5-HsjHML5W-41xC23FUJLaFaquAK72j9wEqjc32OeP3G7m2d8eW5vA-1BEJZbSK4NM0T529pfuGTJdjS7ePBA/s200/Jeff_Shaara.jpg)
Originally published in 2006. The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II is the first book in Jeff Shaara's series about World War II. It is the weakest in many ways. Shaara approaches most of his books with the docudrama format - a little bit of narrative history, a lot bit of historical fiction. His narrative history is quite well written and flows nicely. The historical fiction in this book is its weak point. The action is very good, but there is not a lot of action - just a few pages in the Africa Campaign and some very solid stuff from the Sicily campaign. The majority of the historical fiction part of the book, among the Allied characters at least, is Shaara's characters putting themselves into place to fight Rommel and setting the scene for the second book. It would have moved more briskly if Shaara would have reverted to the historical narrative form, but it would severely limit the fictional aspects of the book. Jeff Shaara On the Axis side, Rommel is the c