The other side of the hill

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1. lvoudourSep 2017
   Upvoted, I'll include The Other Side of the Hill as well.

   It's true, he sounds too enthusiastic with the German operations and very sympathetic to some Nazi officers (Rommel and Manstein for example), but I think it stems from his overall enthusiasm with strategy and military operations in general.

   While for most people a dead soldier is still a horribly murdered human, I think his view is that battles between armies do not count as atrocities (not an uncommon view) and officers who didn't murder civilians (or allege they didn't know civilians were murdered under their command) should not be tried for war crimes. Of course that's a bit too much to swallow, especially on the soviet side.

   By the way, the same argument was applied for scientists as well (see Wernher von Braun and the operation paperclip bunch, who also "didn't know")

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2. pgDec 2012
   Liddell Hart's The German Generals Talk (http://www.amazon.com/German-Generals-Talk-Basil-Liddell/dp/...), originally published in England as The Other Side of the Hill. Probably the most interesting book I've ever read about WW II. I'm surprised it's not better known.
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