Pretty brisk but haunting account of the devastation wrought by WWII on Europe. Does a good job complicating the usual liberation narrative and bringing in the testimonies of affected populations, both in Allied countries and in the occupied Axis areas. Makes me want to read Postwar, which starts out with a similar chronicle of post-war devastation and goes on to cover the half-century afterward. Also does a good job covering the tail-end of the Holocaust, capturing how it was almost doubly-unimaginable: both overwhelmingly horrifying on a personal scale from survivor testimony, and then again as you try to grasp just how many millions were ground up by the Nazi death machine.