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An intense, riveting and thorough work of formidable scholarship. Two years of unimaginably vast cruelty and suffering are somehow compressed into less than 500 engrossing pages. Scholarly almost to a fault, however, many of the harrowing accounts of tragedies are somewhat numbed by the meticulous alphabet soup of endless names, locations, titles and organizations. But this history book does a better job than most of maintaining rigor while remaining entertainingly readable.