As always with this author, great data and emotions.

The writer bounces from subject to subject, idea to idea, at times within the same sentence. I enjoy history and have an affinity for dates, names, and geography, but this author scrambles the three into such a confusing mess. I have found it frustrating if not impossible to enjoy his account. This makes this book unreadable for me.

After trying for years to find out more about this battle, the first my father was in, I find this the most complex and least interesting. Poor job of commenting on suppositions of motives and thoughts of upper echelon officers that he does manage to raise suspicion of incompetency about. Good job of making Hemingway look like the nut job he was. Good job of pointing out that Brit and Americans summarily executed unarmed POWs as did the Germans. War was hell, is hell and will always be hell, but mankind loves it too much to read a book like this and vow to tell his leaders that. Way too many troops moving on poorly drawn maps to really understand the whole picture.