If I were to recommend a highly perceptive and original book on the Second World War, it would be...

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3. I finally finished this book, cover to cover. I rarely read any history from cover to cover but this one was worth it.

I'm an excerpt reader, in general. For many books, I'll read some chapters, not others, particularly if I feel I'm fairly knowledgeable about a particular point in history.

At any given time I might have four or five history books being read, again, excerpts, and most I don't read from cover to cover, particularly one this long.

I read this one over a period of two months, a few pages at a time, but trust me, if you want to understand the Second World War from a moral perspective - at the risk of being dissuaded that there were any "good guys" - this is a book you will very much want to read. It's not very "military." It's about moral positions and moral evasions.