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daryasilman 's review for:
First to Fight: The Polish War 1939
by Roger Moorhouse
My three-star rating has nothing to do with the book's quality but my exhaustion from reading one author. For me, First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 is Roger Moorhouse's third book this year. Unconsciously, I learned his tactics to engage readers, most notably playing on the contrast: the Polish army fought bravely, but... or Germans advanced swiftly, but... He used the exact words to describe Warsaw and Lviv before and after the invasion.
Or, possibly, I need a break from war horrors. The dehumanization of Poles by Nazis and Russians made single cruel acts look innocuous. I was stunned by a story of how two German soldiers, bored by a Jew trying to please them, locked him in a hall-flooded basement of his home, blocked the door with furniture, and ordered his wife not to free the husband. A nurse found a boy on the street with one teabag in his hand: the boy wanted to help a Warsaw hospital. The most horrific truth of all is that we haven't learned anything since WW2. The same brutality level manifests itself right now in Ukraine and Gaza and more minor conflicts. The elegant talk of civilization marching forward is just words, and the invention of AI hasn't made us more compassionate or our politicians more prone to solving problems peacefully.
My review of The Forgers by Roger Moorhouse
My review of The Devils' Alliance by Roger Moorhouse
Or, possibly, I need a break from war horrors. The dehumanization of Poles by Nazis and Russians made single cruel acts look innocuous. I was stunned by a story of how two German soldiers, bored by a Jew trying to please them, locked him in a hall-flooded basement of his home, blocked the door with furniture, and ordered his wife not to free the husband. A nurse found a boy on the street with one teabag in his hand: the boy wanted to help a Warsaw hospital. The most horrific truth of all is that we haven't learned anything since WW2. The same brutality level manifests itself right now in Ukraine and Gaza and more minor conflicts. The elegant talk of civilization marching forward is just words, and the invention of AI hasn't made us more compassionate or our politicians more prone to solving problems peacefully.
My review of The Forgers by Roger Moorhouse
My review of The Devils' Alliance by Roger Moorhouse