Barbara M. reviewed on 4/8/2023 + 147 more book reviews

I had added this book to my wish list when someone else recommended it. This is a series of very short stories about true events--some of which I had heard about (i.e., the Japanese soldier from WWII surrendering in the 1970s--I was in my 20s then; a few weeks back I learned from a biography program about Hitler that Hitler was a serious drug addict during WWII). This book is like a "Reader's Digest" of trivia. It's a quick, sometimes enlightening read--an OK book (not awful but also not great).

At the end of the book the author provides a list for each story of additional resources one may want to check out. I suspect that the author condensed info from these sources to write each story.

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