The ironic part about this post is that this book isn't fiction but narrative history. The two are completely different.
I finally finished "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War" by G.J. Meyer, and have started "A Short History of World War II" by James Stokesbury. Both authors make it a point to show that World War One and World War Two are part of the same conflict, that of newly united Germany trying to establish itself as a world power over against the other European powers, not least the French, who held presidential weight in the European balance of power. The two decades between the two wars were far from peaceful, with a worldwide Depression nestled right in the middle, and the end result of false peace and false disarmament set the stage for Hitler's rise to power.
I finally finished "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War" by G.J. Meyer, and have started "A Short History of World War II" by James Stokesbury. Both authors make it a point to show that World War One and World War Two are part of the same conflict, that of newly united Germany trying to establish itself as a world power over against the other European powers, not least the French, who held presidential weight in the European balance of power. The two decades between the two wars were far from peaceful, with a worldwide Depression nestled right in the middle, and the end result of false peace and false disarmament set the stage for Hitler's rise to power.
I'm pumped about Stokesbury's book. I've liked all his others. I'm equally pumped about getting into Shaara's "The Rising Tide." It's historical fiction, focused on the North African campaigns of World War Two.
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