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Review title: Gets into important subject areas.
Product review: For the most part this book is what one might expect from the title: it covers a lot of ground quickly, and is fairly interesting and fun. What raises the book a notch in my opinion, is that Shenkman sometimes gets into important subject areas. For example, there is a fascinating section on myths of Nazi war preparedness and wartime production. I had read Albert Speer's somewhat self-serving book years ago, and the material Shenkman provides helps put in better prospective the apparent lack of impact of allied bombing on Nazi armament production. There is a chapter on the American family which is jumpy and incomplete, but at least it whets the appetite for a book on this subject, as well as providing some fascinating facts.
