I bought these last week, they are actually eight books condensed into three, at about a thousand pages each. They are conversations and first-hand accounts of the Second World War, and the guy who put these together is a history teacher, who self-published them. I saved a lot of money by getting these omnibus volumes as opposed to the regular books. There is a ninth volume I don’t have, but I’m going to wait for that one to be combined with the forthcoming tenth and maybe eleventh book.
I have a difficult time understanding how people who aren’t interested in this kind of thing, can’t just give them a read, putting themselves in the positions of the people telling their stories, especially as all of this is real and not fiction. It is interesting no matter who the reader is, if the reader comes at it from an apathetic view, as in putting one’s self in their place.
Even more so, there is a lot of interesting and valuable things to learn by listening to what they have to say. We’re so distracted with trivial things that we miss the value and importance of knowing about things like this.
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