According to this article, "the best introduction to the atrocities of World War II." Whee!The article is actually about this book that analyzes comments made by "ordinary" German POWs about their roles in those atrocities, and that sounds interesting too. "The disturbing truth is that, comparable t...
Sweeping, meticulous, wearying. In many ways an admirable book, but i'm not sure it's a needful one. Perhaps because, maybe due to being a Ukrainian Jew, the Holocaust and Soviet history have always been fairly prominent in my sense of European history, theres little here thats strictly new, and muc...