Yet all too quickly slips. In wanting to stand in the shoes of Hjalmar Schacht (since it is from him that it is) a chapter two, the author takes a freedom of tone rather strange, it seemed too often only after the imagination of Bouchard, and not that of Schacht. More generally, if the book is read without displeasure, it remains a disappointing hair because too few documented.
In fact, too many times, the author loses his thread and focuses on the lives of other dignitaries of the Reich on interesting geopolitical considerations but often no direct connection with Schacht. So of course, we could take the party to say that the author wants to place us in the general context of the time, but this comes at the expense of the life of Schacht, which ultimately few elements have been established "officially". So, Bouchard has to be filled by a whole bunch of tricks that serve its original purpose. Besides the limited information on its activities during the Second World War (nothing conclusive, many simplistic assumptions), the most frustrating part is the last: the back cover Schacht announced as a providential adviser for countries to development. Therefore expects to see what he did. And there, all shipped in a dozen fairly insignificant pages.
Only really conclusive part (this is the case to say), the epilogue is that the author concerning the allegedly proven legacy of Schacht, or at least the advice that the economic action could bring out of the rut in which Western governments fell one after the other. We feel that Bouchard master his field, and suddenly the idea is better built. The historic estate, one passes in the field of Foresight, and the transition is a little daunting, we can only congratulate the author to show some audacity to try to transpose the thinking of the Schacht current situation.
But, ultimately, on the latter, ultimately we learn little, and his portrait still quite incomplete. Too bad, but the few available sources on the guy probably made the work difficult. Then the fit on 280 pages was a real challenge. Still, and this is already a lot, the author allows us to discover a unique man, craftsman too forgot to switch-on the German war machine at the dawn of World War II.
