Stacy’s Reviews > The Good War: An Oral History of World War II > Status Update

I’d love to read his oral history on the Great Depression, but it’s 480 pages long, and honestly I don’t know if I can take on another yearlong reading project. The stories are so good though.

The last section about people who worked in the Manhattan project is very good; interestingly most felt that dropping the bomb was necessary but that is should not have been dropped on a city. Not a perspective you hear and I am glad to have read their perspective.

Having read one person’s account of Babi Yar is worth the whole book. It is a shame we only have time in life for mostly a survey if history - what happened, when, and where. The personal stories “make history come alive”, yes, but more importantly give a wider lens through which see the humanity of other people, and to live life in peace with them.