He's an emeritus prof at the University of Chicago, and his book doesn't plod (or pick nits with other academics, as so many books by scholars do).

But--as you know--the history of that area is so tortured, to do scholarly justice to it he has to go into more layers of detail than most readers need.

From the back cover: The invaders included "armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites" with "a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews" destroyed in WWII. Maybe that gives you a better idea of whether it might be worth looking at?