This book I found to be mostly okay? It was far more of a War Book (even if it wasn't focused necessarily on individual generals or whatever) than I was expecting (though I'm not sure what I expected,) and sometimes in his attempts towards aping a kind of journalistic Truth, Hochschild's historical imagination is limited (particularly regarding anarchist Catalonia) which is boring, but it wasn't super appalling to me in most respects. (Though there was a VERY weird throwaway line about how there are no working class Jewish people any more? Like don't be casually gross?)

Overall I didn't find this book terrible, but it also like wasn't my favorite book in the world? If you have a white dad who likes war books, he'd probably really like it. It's slightly more thoughtful than your average war book, so it has that going for it.