2023, book 17: Showa 1926–1939: a history of Japan, Shigeru Mizuki

OK, but not great. It's a mix of autobiography (pretty good) and history (pretty mediocre). Mizuki was a troublemaker as a kid, and clearly never got anywhere academically. His research for the history section appears to have been limited to "here's a bunch of events, what order did they occur in?" Too much reads like an "and then, and then, and then" timeline, with too little to distinguish the relative importance of events.

Van nul tot nu did this much, much better.

2023, book 16: Night of the physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German bomb, Richard von Schirach

OK. Less annoying than Bernstein's Hitler's uranium club.

There is some sketchiness in some of the technical details, but I cannot tell whether it's due to von Schirach not knowing anything about science and not doing his homework or whether the translator is to blame.