I read a German level B1 adaptation of this for school, so I can't really make an accurate analysis of the whole book. Anyway, this was an insightful read. When talking about WW1 and WW2, the main voices are always those of the people who have been at the front for the first and people who have been in concentration camps for the second, so it was interesting to see the perspective of someone who saw both "from a distance", since he didn't fight during the Great War and escaped before it was too late during Hitler's regime. His account of the cultural climate of the early 1900s and his meetings with famous intellectuals of his time was also really interesting. Can't say much about the writing style since I don't know how faithful the writing in the adaptation was to the original one, but I enjoyed it.