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.