10 years 3 months ago - 10 years 3 months ago #21
by Nikita
Why did the war last for so long? How to explain the incredible resistance of the Nazi regime in the middle of rubble?
My opinion:
An interesting topic but a plodding and finally boring book, where Ian Kershaw repeats again and again in the course of pages. By reading this book, we have the feeling to shuffle along, to be stuck, and we want to tell the author: "C'mon, Kershaw, it's ok, we understood, move forward now, move forward, proceed, proceed." It's tiring and discouraging, so much Kershaw keeps harping due to wanting to demonstrate. We arrive at the end of these almost 600 pages (with more than 100 pages of notes!) exhausted, with the feeling that 300 pages would have been amply sufficient.
Of course, it's obvious that Kershaw masters his topic, to say the opposite would be simply stupid and conceited, and one is not professor of contemporary history at the Shefield university by chance. No, the problem of Kershaw, in this book, is not about not knowing the history, it's about not knowing how to tell it.
Ian Kershaw
The end. The defiance and destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-1945
ISBN : 9781594203145
Last edit: 10 years 3 months ago by Nikita. Reason: Vocabulary check
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