Started: 4/19/2020
Completed: 4/25/2020
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: My mother, who said that this was not one of Erik Larson's best, but that she really liked the way he wrote.
Words for which I sought help:
snog -- to kiss and caress amorously
Review:
In the end, my mother did not enjoy the book, but worked her way through it. I, on the other hand, really liked the juxtaposition of the English and German perspective. This is largely a biography of Churchill during the war, but it also throws in notes from German diaries. In addition, Churchill's family gets a bit of perspective. All of these people were very complex and trying to talk about all of them in a single volume (even a small library) is difficult. I like the way that Larson was able to share the same events from multiple perspectives simultaneously without making the material dull. Not every event was viewed from each character, but it seems that when there was a single event that multiple people saw differently, Larson honed in on it and provided the different viewpoints. This made for a rich read.
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