This month I took a break from fiction and read a little nonfiction. This book I picked up because it was about women who escaped from the Death March in 1945.
If you enjoy nitty gritty historical detail, you will probably like this. It was full of interesting facts. However, I was not a fan of the structure. The author separated the women and told more details about each of their backstories in chapters that then went on to give some detail about the flight. There was also a lot of personal stuff included, because one of the women was her aunt.
Honestly, I could have lived without the personal stuff. I didn’t come to this book to find out about a personal quest for family history. [yawn]. I also found the structure where she spotlit one woman and then mixed in the flight story difficult to follow at times and disjointed.
The research was fantastic! And if you are writing on a topic related to this and need some historical information, this book was great for that. However, as an engaging nonfiction read, not so much. Let your purpose for reading be your guide. 🙂