I am captivated by the Second World War and this is the first time I read a book a book over water in history with 948 pages of text. It's very interesting to open the mind to the globalization of the conflict and see what is happening in Europe, Japan, China ... and we see the complexity of different terrains and strategies. This opens the mind considerably and geopolitics has a new standard. There was no Europe and we are astonished least 70 death of millions probably underestimated. We quickly became aware of the extraordinary impact of the war in shaping the modern world and in links with the most recent conflicts. When the intellectual navel makes you know by heart what is happening in Europe, you are taking in the face of Japanese behavior that largely exceeds in cruelty the Nazis with surprising societal functioning. In short this book is extraordinary to open the mind and give more knowledge. However, do not be surprised, like me, in these conditions, that subjects making the object of entire books is treated here in half a page. This disadvantage is the consequence of an initial misunderstanding on my part of the purpose of this book. But this is largely achieved by clearly made you smarter about topics that you do not control while erasing what you already know that you could not nappréciez work. This is a whole and its mode of approach that makes all the quality