I don't know what inspired me to pick this audiobook up.

Okay, well, maybe I do know a little. I really like the narrator Jonathan Keeble. But the topic is not one that I know much of or really have a ton of interest in.

But this is at once a modern perspective on a pivotal moment in history and a contemporary account of a harrowing couple of weeks during the worst period of human history. And something that disparate really shouldn't work. But somehow it does. I found myself really enjoying this read, for both perspectives and the humorous anecdotes that made the story feel present and real.