Trevor Giroux
Author: Jeff Shaara
Pages 449
Rating 7-10
As I near the end of this book I am still enjoying it as much as the day I started reading it. Towards the end of the book the author writes more chapters from the perspective of the Germans. The two Germans that you see the war through are Architect Albert Speer and Field Marshall Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt. What I really like is the way the author uses actual documents and historical books to recreate how these characters felt during the last months of the Third Reich. The description of the destruction of German cities by constant Allied bombing helps to remind you that the Germans were people too and that not all of them were Nazis. Some were just innocent people that knew nothing about concentration camps or the genocides that Hitler was participating in. Unfortunately they had to suffer the same things that Hitler and the German army suffered. You also continue to see the war through the eyes of General George Patton and Private Benson. The description of the concentration camp at Ohrdruf is so real that you can feel the horror and anger of the Americans that liberate the camp. I do not want to say too much about the fate of Benson and his squad or tell you what happens to the real people like Patton and Speer but I can tell you that this is an amazing book that almost anyone would enjoy.
I have noticed you like the war books. Can you relate this to another book so I might get a better understanding of why you like these type of books so much.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure what book I would relate this to because it is very unique even in the historical /war genre. The reason I enjoy this type of book so much is because history is my favorite thing to learn about and history is usually shaped by war, politics, religions, and new discoveries like new scientific theories or the exploration of new places such as the colonization of the Americas or the Apollo missions to the moon.
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ReplyDeleteI also like historical books because you can learn from them and the events of the plot actually happened. This book sounds like a great first hand look at the war. Is there anything about the book you didn't like?
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