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paperknotbooks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
To be reviewed after BookTube Prize wraps up.
melissafulton's review
challenging
informative
sad
4.0
Don't go into this one expecting a compelling read. It is informative and impressive, but it is dry and pushing 1000 pages. Still worth the read to me.
The first half (roughly) goes through the war more-or-less chronologically, with all the context and detail you could possibly need, in order to recontextualize the second world war as a war of empire, first and foremost. And I think it's successful in doing so.
The second half of the book covers the various ways in which the second world war was unique among wars: for example, there are sections on war economies, effect on civilians, technology (radar and radio advances), atrocity & war crimes.
The first half (roughly) goes through the war more-or-less chronologically, with all the context and detail you could possibly need, in order to recontextualize the second world war as a war of empire, first and foremost. And I think it's successful in doing so.
The second half of the book covers the various ways in which the second world war was unique among wars: for example, there are sections on war economies, effect on civilians, technology (radar and radio advances), atrocity & war crimes.
nathanschumer's review
fast-paced
4.0
really impressive history of ww2 which situates it as a clash of empires, setting up the Axis powers as attempting to create new, equivalent empires to their Allied rivals. There was a really good discussion of WW2 from a military perspective, and a lot of good focus on the economies that backed up the war.
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