Excepcional obra sobre la segunda guerra mundial.

Somehow, I read this entire book in about two months. 53 chapters and 750 or so pages. It was a lot.

When I first started, I didn't think I was going to be able to make it. I knew I couldn't quit, because this was a school book...but at the same time, I was pretty sure there was no way I could keep on. Not with the weight of human depravity being thrown at me with every page and paragraph and line. The Second World War was, throughout, less a war of battles and more one of mass destruction everywhere and largely that of innocent civilians. Millions and millions of these died, and the stories of their ends is heartrending to read but impossible to look away from.

This is not an easy book, either in reading level or brutality level. It is a brilliantly written book, one that gives insight into all the leaders on all sides of the war. As a history of the brutality that was the Second World War I'd recommend it in a heartbeat. If you're just looking for an interesting history lesson, however, this would not be the place to start. "The unfinished business of the Second World War is human pain," says the epilogue to this book, and that is the truth. This was a war of pain. So much pain.

Never again...and what we know will help us to avoid letting something of this scale happen again. Learn of the Holocaust. Learn of the occupation of Poland, of the destruction of Russia, of the torture of prisoners of war. It's brutal and violent and heartrending. It makes us question humanity. But it is needed.

This was a bit of a brain-dump...but I have many thoughts after reading this book. If you stuck around, thank you. This isn't exactly a review like I normally do, but it's my honest thoughts.

A huge book, documenting the WW2 on almost daily basis, Covering all fronts.
Its a fact that the this book is somehow represents the English point of view of the war.
And that's why Martin Gilbert was in some cases justifying the horrors done by the Allies and avoid talking about it in some cases.
But still a very reliable source of information. I have a much better understanding of this historical period than before.

In depth coverage of the entire war.