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Klein praised the book for its unromantic view of World WarII, noting its focus on production, logistics and the claim that there were no decisive battles.
I have recently re-read How the War Was Won by Phillips O'Brien, who's a military historian, and it's a book about World War II, but he's become a prolific commentator on the war in Ukraine, and it's...
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Klein praised the book for its unromantic view of World WarII, noting its focus on production, logistics and the claim that there were no decisive battles.
I have recently re-read How the War Was Won by Phillips O'Brien, who's a military historian, and it's a book about World War II, but he's become a prolific commentator on the war in Ukraine, and it's mostly... It's this wonderfully unromantic anti-glory view of war. It's all about, look, it's really about modern wars, about production and logistics. The opening sentence is, I think, there were no decisive battles in World War II.