![]() ![]() If you want to understand the military history of the eastern front and/or the experience of the soldiers on the ground, then I would not recommend this book. For me, these sections were interesting, but were excessively dragged out and not supplemented by a military narrative. If you are interested in this aspect of the eastern front, then this is the book for you. Stone goes into great detail about the industrial machinations of the Russian state, and the mismanagement in that area that contributed to its failure in the war. ![]() The book focuses largely on Russia's management of its war economy. ![]() These long recitations of numbers, which lacked the visual cohesion that makes such tables useful, were boring, pointless and made the book more difficult to follow. One annoying aspect of the audio of this book was that the narrator read, out loud, the various charts and tables, most of which were focused on Russian industrial output. I was also disappointed that it failed to discuss in any detail the experiences of the soldiers on the ground, this book did not give me an understanding of what it was like to be a soldier on the eastern front. The book is also very abrupt, it begins and ends without any sort of summing up or reflections. I came away with no better understanding of the military events of the eastern front than I went in with, which was sorely disappointing. It provides no real coherent narrative of the events of the Eastern front. I was anticipating a straightforward narrative of the Eastern Front with a focus on military history. ![]()
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