Difficult though it might be to produce both a gripping page-turner and a definitive historical account, I think the author might just have managed it with this volume. Although threaded with personal narratives from both sides of the conflict, it is in the dispassionate and comparative examination of the tactics, abilities, command structures and, most importantly, losses and replacement statistics that prove fascinating reading with so many myths and assumptions turned squarely on their heads.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 91 Winter 2019 ) |
