Klaus E Werner (@kewerner)

Dear Serge, you seem to be one of the few to extract some wisdom out of that carnage that was the battles of WW2. Far too many analyses of engagements sound like Homer's catalogue of ships - just a boring (for the not initiate reader) compilation of forces and movements. Your accounts instead are reflection and thorough analysis to actually grab the heart of the matter. But to blame for that is also the peculiar state of historiography after WW2: the victor is far too often not very much interested in actual truth, the looser glosses over his failures and seeks someone or something else to blame. The fact that the US sought the advice of - of all guys! - the german chief of staff Franz Halder to write the history of the war definitely blocked all real analysis for generations.