Hi, I wanted to read an overview of the second world war. These books tend to be quite heavy so I wanted to go with a relatively uncontroversial work. Is there a more moder 'go-to' second world war history book? Is the accuracy of the classical work I mentioned still held in high esteem, or is there a good reason to give it a miss?
Thanks for any help
Here are a few previous answers talking about Shirer, his work (at least this book), and it's place as primary source.
2a. /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov put down an alternative work by Richard J. Evans found in the booklist here
a bit of a thread can be found here by [deleted] heh, and maybe some other discussions there as well.
/u/naturalog lil bit here
might find more searching under the book title but these are good starts.