Michael Harmon's Reviews > End of a Berlin Diary

If you read the first book, you should definitely read this one. Williams prose meets the moment and captures this pivotal time in history. He captures the exhaustion, despair, frustration and relief that the war is over.

The sequel in my mind is not as good as the original, but still stands as a great memoir to theses events in history. He mentions many stories and facts that I didn’t know prior.

One curious point found interesting is the author hardly mentions the Holocaust. He does in the end and admits he doesn’t cover it because it deserves a book in its own right. The atomic bomb too, is mentioned, but more as matter of fact and doesn’t truly make light of its horrors. It seems somewhat surprising that these atrocities receive passing references, but it also possibly speaks to the authors exhaustion and jadedness to the horrors of WW2.