Evan’s Reviews > The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 > Status Update

This is an extraordinary history, on the same level as Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. So many political portents in this book that make it super timely. Big-ass winter read; let's get to page 1,000.

This is proving to be more timely and relevant in many ways I hadn't anticipated. And damn, can Shirer write history. 1,000 pages let's go!

Pretty great so far. This authoritarian twit in France in the 1880s, Georges Boulanger, had so many Trump-like parallels I had to look him up online and yes, he was called "General Revenge" and has been compared to Don the con. Humans keep repeating the same mistakes.