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PPS ATW Why is it a bad book? I thought it was alright.
The book was written in a language typical for a soviet suck-up rather than objective writer: if you look at how Manstein wrote his work you will see that he very rarely, if at all, uses absolutes - lots of words: probably, likely etc: now that's objective approach even though he was in a very biased position, yet he wrote in a very good unbiased way showing that he really was a professional of the highest order.
Beevor's fall of Berlin has got same problems - compare it for example to Liddle Hart's (spell?) book on World War 2 - now that's excellent work that does not suck up to either side, only pity that it mainly focussed on Allied operations, I wish someone of his quality could have written work on Ost Front's operations, sadly even if he was alive this would not be possible because Soviet/Russian military historians primarily serve the interests of the State to show their side in the best light by falsifying history.
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