Some were very good in their dealings with the French wine industry, others less so. That the Nazi’s placed expert bureaucrat’s called Weinführers into the various appellations to supervise the purchasing of France's great wines for transport back to Germany was a new one for me. This is not usually a problem for me, but the authors seemed to chop the stories told around a little too haphazardly.īe that as it may, there is a lot to learn. The coverage was based mainly on the reminiscing of events of various and famous wine families, that unfortunately lacked a seamlessness in delivery that had me scurrying to look up the index as to where these people had been previously mentioned. The authors were of a journalistic background and it showed. There is a great book out there on this subject in my opinion and someone such as Lizzie Collingham who wrote an exceptional book called The taste of War would have been ideal. Wine and War is a very easy read book in a fairly informal way that was for this reviewer is a little too less than academic in presentation, a style that I prefer when reading history.
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