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
An account of the planning, fighting, and dying of World War II discusses Eisenhower, Patton, and Montgomery's strengths and weaknesses, the initiated airdrop seizure of Rome, the plan to wrest Berlin from the Soviets, and more.