This was recommended on one of my groups. While I'm a fiction gal, at times I'll try to expand my knowledge with a non-fiction book. This was available, so I grabbed it and started listening.

In the not to distant past, I'd listened to [b:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1528312647l/8908._SX50_.jpg|817] and [b:FantasticLand|28695606|FantasticLand|Mike Bockoven|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1459328318l/28695606._SX50_.jpg|48893366] ... apocalyptic fiction that has this same approach, an "oral history" where many people recount their memory of events as they unfold. With those two books in my mind, I had to shake off any similarities, as this of course, is true.

The other couple things I struggled slightly with were how quick the narrators/people changed. Sometimes someone would pop on just for one sentence. Names and titles were given ... then just names throughout that chapter. So many people, it was a little hard to keep track of some that repeated. There were recognizable names, people that I probably WOULD recognize voices, enough to know that the voice representing them was not them. There were a few times when actual recorded audio was included.

Those few items aside, this was a very compelling compilation of memories and records. It was well organized into sections. Times I was brought to tears. I watched the footage as it happened, read the news in the days/months/years following, watched the various movies featuring the events... still felt like I learned new things with this book.