Yanik’s Reviews > Grootboek van de tweede wereldoorlog: Van München tot Pearl Harbor - Eerste deel > Status Update

This is a mixed bag with both highly detailed historical reflections, first hand accounts and think pieces....but also overblown news articles and fiction.
I have now skipped over an excerpt from Paul Carell's Operation Barbarossa. Holy hell what a load of romanticized and fantastical tosh.:'|

Guderian's analysis of Barbarossa was interesting and detailed.
I do wonder how much, especially the quotations of Hitler and co., were ways to save his own hide.
In the end he describes the invasion as a 'beautiful situation' so there's little masking of that, at least.

Guderian's account of the opening days of Barbarossa is interesting.
Pitting the falters in leadership against the troubles in the field.

Elliot Roosevelt's account of the signing of the Atlantic Charter. Aside from continually asking the US to join the war, Churchill and his were adamant about receiving the most major share in the Lend-lease production as they though anything given to the Russians was wasted and would fall into German hands...quite a surprise to me.

Ah, The Cruel Sea is a no ek, not a memoir, that ecplains a lot of things. Still, a good read!

I had'nt heard of Kroatia's resistance against Nazi opression, deffinetly want to read more of that!
The invasion of Krete medic's account was very interesting and honest.
The escort friggat account by Monsarrat was very melodtamatic, but gave an incredible insight in the harsh circumstances of the merchantmarine convoys and the other side of the well accounted submarine menace, would love to read more.

Skipped the rest of the Blitz. Got my WW2 interested fanned again, so continuing.
Seeing the Italian instigations in such detail makes them even more baffling.

The piece about the Blitz should have been interesting. Thus far it's a sensationalist write up about London's night life and distinguished elite having fun while the bombs fell and way too long for its own good.

The first-hand accounts of the two Battle of Britain aces were great and I will definitely seek out their autobiographies.

Most articles/write ups are quite good. The connecting tissue...not so much. Short sighted, full of untruths and colored perspective(which many articles fall to too). I'm not going to expect a great contribution from Soviet or German perspectives given the time period. Still, the first-hand accounts are very valuable.