Title: Dense, dense, denser
Review: Colonel Glantz's reputation preceded him, and so I bought this book, expecting a major work describing the war on the Eastern Front. Coming in at about 300 pages, archival it isn't. However, it is written in the deadest prose I have encountered in a long time, with endless shopping lists of manouvres, and very little of the big picture. Detail is great, but repetitiveness of this degree is excruciating. Too many facts maketh Jack a bad story teller, and surely, the art of writing well is to sift out useful facts from trivial ones. I can make as good a claim as anyone to being being spellbound by the Russian front, but this book reads like a not very original Master's thesis. 62% for the thesis, and 45% for daring to publish in the general domain. Money back time, I'm afraid. This book has gone in pristine condition to the nearest charity. A terrible disappointment.
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