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Amazing in a horrific sense. I stopped a third of the way through as the detailing of the destruction became too much to bear. One can say what one wants about who "started" the Second World War (viz., a good argument can be made that it began with the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty ending the Great War on November 11, 1918), yet given the breadth and scale of destruction and suffering (Germany, Russia, China, Japan, France, Italy, Poland, Greece, etc.), and the fact that civilian deaths outnumbered military 3:1, one sees the truth of the statement "War is the only enemy." A horrific read, but it is a salutary reminder that the central fact of war is death and destruction, and not just of lives but also of physical culture (books, buildings, etc.).