Status Updates From Războiul lumii: Epoca urii

if I don’t read anything this month it’s because I’m reading this dense 800 pages book for my history class 😔

I am really enjoying this book. But I also disagree with it. Britian was economically prostrate after WWII. Mr. Ferguson's argument is that they should have just gone broke SOONER by abandoning appeasement and rearming as a deterrent to Hitler. How about fixing an economy with 14% unemployment instead? Growing the economy faster so that they could afford a military build-up???

"...the empire established by Lenin and his confederates was the first to be based on terror itself since the short-lived tyranny of the Jacobins in revolutionary France." I don't think anything more needs to be said about communism.