This is straight military history - written during and immediately afterwards. The first 3 chapters, which talk about the buildup to war, were interesting enough. I would have liked more about the pre-war history.

I'm not a fan of descriptions of the mechanics of war - When I read Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, I chose the military abridged version - so I may or may not finish this book.

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I finished this, more due to perseverance than interest. There are about 40 pages dealing with attitudes and lessons learned that are of interest to the general reader. The other 400+ pages recount soldiers doing essentially the same things over and over. These actions were critical, indeed life and death, to those personally involved - but the litany of engagements does not hold the interest of the general reader.