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

Really rolling along now. I'm finding this impossible to put down.

Sept. 1, 1939. World War II begins. Reading about it never gets old. Being reminded of how it happened is always important, The evil never went away, as we well know. This is a story of people who were not prepared. Are we?

This is looking like a memorable one. Shirer really takes you into the trenches of epic history. What an incredible reporter he was.

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.