Jim’s Reviews > A Short History of World War II > Status Update

Summarizing a subject as immense as WWII into 400 pages requires careful choices about what to include, and for the most part Stokesbury makes good ones (though inevitably no one will agree with all of them). His narratives are tight and succinct, though maybe too much so. His analytic history, however, is excellent and summarizes complex topics informatively with great insight. An excellent single-volume summary.