re: #225 Dark_Falcon

The Face of Battle really changed the entire way I approach military history. Reading it, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Cannot overstate how good it is.

Also, for a single-volume book about WWII, I really really recommend amazon.com. It emphasizes the mistakes, the errors, the weaknesses of the leaders in really interesting way. It basically shows you the limitation of their views, both in terms of the information they had available to them and their own personalities. He shows the fog of battle as it affected the generals, and evaluates a lot of missed opportunities in a way that’s not armchair generalship, but more “We do things differently today, precisely because of shit like this.”