Ethnic minorities and Foreigners in Hitler's Army [off topic]

[bearoutwest]

This is a comment on the author’s perspective of interpretation of data, rather than her ability to research the data. I followed the link to Amazon out of curiosity. The Amazon site enables you to read a random sample of pages. The particular page that was presented involved some discussion on the relative racial merits of various Allied leaders, and their names were listed (I am typing from memory, so am not repeating the list verbatim, and any spelling mistakes are my own)...Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Ze-Dong, Kai-Shek.....
Now whereas the author’s research skills might be top-rated, an author who is setting out to write a book on cultural/racial sensitivities, but isn’t culturally aware enough to know that Mao Ze-Dong’s surname is Mao and Chiang Kai-Shek’s surname is Chiang – or for that matter is not historically aware enough to have encountered these surnames in previous reading – has to have her credentials queried.
This is just an observation. I haven’t fully read the book – nor am I likely to have time to do so in the near future, so I am not in a position to comment fully on the accuracy of contents or the author’s possible point of view.
...geoff