Title: A deeply painful read.
Product review: Robert O. Paxton has managed, with this book, to turn one of the most dynamic and exciting periods of European history into a turgid, unreadable mess. At every turn, events are fully detailed, but robbed of even the slightest spark of life, as flat and uninteresting as a dessicated leaf.Though EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY could be used as reference work, with the scholar dipping in to grab facts as needed, Paxton's work is an utter failure as a cover-to-cover read, thanks to his seeming inability to write in a compelling fashion. Couple the boredom factor with the book's outrageous, textbook-typical price point, and there's little here to recommend to the prospective buyer.
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