"The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas.
If you could read only one book to understand gene. . . .
He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes and ears of soldiers and generals on the other side of the line. . . .
Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . "The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas