The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
'Professor Erickson carries his readers along by the sheer vigour of his style and his vivid account of the harrowing events with which he has to deal' - Michael Howard, The Sunday Times The most authoritative and comprehensive account of the Russian advance on Germany Essential reading for any student of World War Two