Thomas Goodrich

Should be REQUIRED READING for any survey course on the history of the Second World War. In fact, for anyone who wants to strengthen their general understanding of the nature and course of twentieth-century history, this book is invaluable.

Goodrich is an excellent writer and "Hellstorm" is highly readable and accessible. This book is not a stale, lifeless review of some minor academic niche topic; this is an important social history of a topic that is relevant to our lives today.

We all live in the shadow of the cataclysm of 1944-1947, except most of us don't realize it. "Hellstorm" is therefore not just a well written history, but rather it is also a relevant and important book in our modern, contemporary political context.… (más)

This is a particularly pernicious pro-slavery account, all the more shocking for having been written in 1998. It's shocking that human beings such as Thomas Goodrich roam the earth and publish the praises of noble slave holders who treated their slaves so well. Read this only as you would study a monster in a strange zoo, trying to understand how it thinks.

By the way, the phrase "War to the Knife" is a giveaway of this author's sentiments - "War to the knife, knife to the hilt" was a slogan of the proslavery forces in Kansas.… (más)