Since suspense doesn't play into the equation here, I feel comfortable recommending "The Fall of Berlin", even though I haven't quite finished it. The authors, Anthony Reed and David Fisher, do an excellent job balancing what I assume is their typical audience's thirst for military minutiae with detailed and varied accounts of the life of the everyday Berliner during World War II.
I rarely read history, let alone military history, but have found this book to be an unanticpated pleasure, and a page turner, even.
I spent this weekend with my parents and was reminded that my stepfather actually served in World War II. He was 17. As his generation gives way to others, it's easy for us "youngins" to get a bit lax about remembering (or learning for the first time) the details of a war that killed, directly or indirectly, 50 million people.
While I have nothing to compare the book to (having only realized in the last month that my knowledge of this critical 20th century event was thinner than saran wrap), I still recommend it confidently to anyone looking for an in-depth, apparently objective (certainly non-proselytizing) recounting of World War II through the lens of the citizens, politicians and soldiers of Berlin.
"The Fall of Berlin"
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A concise, clear revenue resplendent in its brevity. Perhaps you should exit marketing and enter cultural criticism. Lower pay, fewer stock options, weirder hours--but you do get to affect a silly accent if you like.
sorry: "review" not "revenue." i was obviously thinking more about marketing than cultural crit. er, whoops.
Do I get to choose which accent?
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