I recommend you to read this book for the following two reasons. First, though this book is non-fiction , it was written in such an interesting way that for once, I read a 150-pages long, non-fiction book in two days. Second, this book does not contain any bias toward, or against Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party, which is a very noble and fascinating method for a historical writer.
When you think of a non-fiction book, you are probably going to picture a long boring essay, fully loaded with information, or a detailed descriptive story with emotions flooding all over the place. And when you think of a historical non-fiction book, the former, and also the least enjoyable one, would probably be the one which jumped into your subconscious mind. Yes, in order for a good historical book to be successful and useful, it’s necessary for it to contain information that is as accurate and as supportive as possible, but most of these books turn out to be long and dry essays that no one could read through without falling asleep once or twice, or... until tomorrow. This book, however, did not make me feel bored even when I read the most tedious part of the book at the most tiring time of the day. Combining the quotes from the primary references with the story which Mrs. Campbell had successfully rewritten based on those quotes, the whole book turned out to be almost as interesting as fiction. The greatest advantage of a half-fiction historical book is that it can make you fall into and drown inside the sea of information without realizing it.
No matter how well a history book is written, if it contains a great bias against or toward a certain subject, then it is undependable. “Hitler Youth”, however, did not contain bias, at least not in an apparent way, toward or against the subject – the Second World War. With only provable stories and primary sources that Campbell had collected, this book presented to us a place where we can learn without being disturbed by the disturbing views of some extreme people. With is very good for us, who should not form such bais opoin on this time of age when we still need further study in order for us to build our very own opion on thing like this.
After all this book is a good book for you to read. Very interesting, indeed.
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I think that this book seems quite interesting after how much you campaigned for it over the course of your blog. Your description of how it captured your interest shows that it is a good choice of non fiction, and I hope to read it after your positive words. I think that one of the more interesting parts of the book is that it has no bias, either for Hitler or against. Finally, was this book recommended to you prior to reading it, or was it simply out of curiosity that you read it?
ReplyDeletei would like to read this book as well. this does catch my attention
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