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This book provides valuable insights into German corps and divisional command decisions on the Eastern Front. Each chapter was written by a different general, as part of the US Army's efforts to tap this resource for information shortly after the war.

Newton has retranslated these, offers corrections to the orignal translations (that apparently were done by Army officers with only a very basic command of the German language), and gets these manuscripts out of dusty archives and into publication.

Simply making these available to a wide audience is valuable. Newton goes further, however, by providing useful footnotes throughout the chapters.

I rate the book 4 stars instead of 5 because of the very large number of typos in the book. Most of these are quite jarring. For example, in one instance the word "be" is rendered as "e". I do not fault Newton necessarily (although he is ultimately responsible for these sorts of errors), but rather Schiffer Press which I do not think offers much, if any, support for authors in terms of editing and copy editing. I have several other books from Schiffer by other authors and there are similar problems. Schiffer has interesting books in its catalog, but it clearly is a "crank-em-out-and-they'll-buy-'em" press.

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