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The Last 100 Days

The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe

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The Last 100 Days

Von: John Toland
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A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and theultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundreddays between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people - from Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, andHeinrici; from underground leaders to diplomats; from top Allied fieldcommanders to brave young GIs. Toland adeptly wove together these interviewsusing research from thousands of primary sources.

When it was first published, The Last 100 Days madehistory, revealing after-action reports, staff journals, and top-secretmessages and personal documents previously unavailable to historians. Sincethat time it has come to be regarded as one of the greatest historicalnarratives of the twentieth century.

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A book review is always a matter of personal taste. To me the book felt disjointed like a patchwork of short stories. Toland tells the story of the last 100 days of WW2 through a collection of very detailed personal accounts of people at the center of those events, for example the bombing of Dresden or the sinking of the Goya. To me this type of storytelling was too detailed, conveyed too many irrelevant facts that made the book feel heavy to listen to. I think Toland's background is a journalistic one and in a way the book feels like a collection of newspaper feature articles. The book is also full of jumps in time when a new topic, for example the Balkans and Yugoslavia, is discussed, and then the listener is suddenly taking back to March 1941. Again, the book felt disjointed and lacking on overall narrative arc.

Patchwork of short stories

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