3/5 Strange book for my first experience of Braudel but definitely up my alley. I’m going to save final judgement on this one until I’ve read “The Mediterranean”.

4/5 This oral biography hits like water in the desert, and makes my heart ache for the world Bourdain has left us with. The picture of the complicated writer, traveler[…]

5/5 Welp Tooze is even better than advertised. This is a masterpiece of economic history and a dramatic intervention into the field of wehrmacht studies.