Saturday, May 16, 2015

Fateful Choices - Ian Kershaw

The stated purpose of the book was to look at 10 critical decisions between the start of 1940 and the end of 1941, and show all the twists and turns, as well as the thought processes, that ultimately produce the choice made. Kershaw’s reasoning seemed to be that many of these are often treated as obvious, as though there were no other choice, or as without any logic. Kershaw wanted to show how neither of those things would be true.

Unfortunately, his approach of recapping everything leading up to the actual decision, made me feel as though I was just reading a rehash of things I’d read in any number of books before. So I gave up on it after two chapters. So I've hit critical mass on World.War 2 for awhile.

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