National Review, April 1st, 1990
HOW FITTING THAT, just as the fiftieth anniversary of the Second World War is producing a stream of new books, we seem to be witnessing our final victory in that conflict, as the Communist tide that accompanied Germany's collapse recedes from Eastern Europe. It is a good time to think back to that most dramatic and appalling of events, to how close we came to disaster, and to how we won our awesome victory. John Keegan's new book is an outstanding synthesis and probably the best-written one-volume account to date. With his obvious mastery of this immense subject and his accomplished style, he...
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