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"In this book, which is so creative, so original, one learns as much about the nature of man as of battle."
--J.H. Plumb, The New York Times Book Review
"This without any doubt is one of the half-dozen best books on warfare to appear in the English language since the end of the Second World War."
--Michael Howard, The Sunday Times
"A totally original and brilliant book"
--The New York Review of Books
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