The Coldest Winter

A huge gap in my understanding of events that greatly influenced the american politics of my formative years has been filled in.

This, along with Washington's Crossing, is one of my favorite war books. I found the politics of MacArthur and Almond fascinating, but that aside, I feel like this book gave me an incredible sense of what it might have been like to ‘be there'–or it at least came as close as possible for something as remote and foreign to me as war. It flowed extremely well, switching between historical context and explanations of what the soldiers may have been thinking almost imperceptibly.