Suggest me a balanced but entertaining historical book about world war 2

I recently listened to “Churchill’s Ministery of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and I found the narrator good and the writing entertaining but soon noticed how biased it was. It omits all the negatives and portrays everyone in their best light.

Please recommend some books covering WW2 that are well written but balanced. I am listening to “The rise and fall of the third reich” and I intend to slog through it but it’s fairly dry, especially in the beginning. Bonus points if it’s on audible or other easily accessible audiobook formats but kindle or dead tree is also fine

I’m interested in all topics surrounding the war – hardware, politics, key players, strategies etc.

When I say balanced I mean acknowledging the human cost, trade-offs and failures on the Allied side. I don’t mean pro-nazi or apologist books for Axis powers. I would like to read objective accounts from people who fought on the Axis side or interviews with same after the war (not exclusively but I’m trying to explain what I mean by balanced).

Please don’t recommend very heavy books like something that deals exclusively with the holocaust and fallout, I don’t know that I could deal with that amount of suffering

TLDR is I would like balanced and objective pop history books or solid history books that are not just facts and numbers. Everywhere I search I keep getting recommended titles that I would suspect are “war p**n” and I really don’t want that

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