#recommendation

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I'm going to re-listen to the of The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. It answers so many of the questions I always had about . Eg. How did one, admittedly fairly industrially strong, country think they could take on all of Europe, and why did it take so long for the allies to win? Turns out there's a lot of different factors and explanations, not always rational ones! Anyway, I strongly this book if you have any interest in WW2. For a book about an ostensibly dry subject (how did the wartime German economy function?) it really is a pageturner and terrifically well-researched. Tooze is a fluent German speaker so has really been able to dig into primary German sources, and an engaging writer.