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Title: An Enthralling History Lesson
Review: Never a fan of war epics, and a pacifist to boot, I found myself thrust into the book after a friend coerced me to read it. After a couple hundred chapters of standard introductions and sluggish war rumblings from afar, the saga started to pick up. Two main characters are tossed in a simple Jewish countrytown in Poland as the Nazis attack unsparingly. Woulk waters down the blatant social commentary and WWII strategem with a winding plot that places protagonists in a lavish party of Goering's (Hitler's right-hand man), with a guestlist including Hitler himself, at the cockpit of a British fighter plane soaring across Berlin, and the private office of FDR, as he seeks for guidance. The subtle, romantic fumblings of lovers even squirm their way into the plot to complete a deliciously factual fiction.
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